Saint-Exupéry : a biography

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Stacy Schiff has brought Saint-Exupery wonderfully to life in this definitive biography of the enchanting and complex man. Drawing on dramatic new material, she provides full accounts of his many harrowing plunges to earth, the most serious of which led to the publication of Wind, Sand and Stars, and of his unhappy yet fertile years in New York, where he wrote both Flight to Arras and The Little Prince. She includes entirely fresh information on...

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Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 1900-1944

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ISBN:

9780679403104
0679403108

Edition:

First edition

Description:

xi, 525 pages : illustrations, map, photographs ; 25 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 511-514) and index

Contents:

A king of infinite space (1927-1928)
The mother country (1900-1909)
Things in heaven and earth (1909-1915)
Lost horizons (1915-1920)
Silver linings (1920-1922)
Walking on air (1922-1926)
Friends in high places (1926)
The swift completion of their appointed rounds (1927-1929)
Toward the country where the stones fly (1929-1931)
Brightness falls (1931-1933)
Beyond the call of duty (1933-1935)
"Tayara boum-boum, tayara boum-boum!" (1935-1937) Civil evening twilight (1937-1939)
Where is France? (1939-1940)
Resistance on Fifth Avenue (1940-1942)
Anywhere out of this world (1942-1943)
Into thin air (1943-1944)
Epilogue : Saint Antoine d'Exupéry

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94004011

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52886

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