Check the listing for details. Saint-Exupéry Box - 5 emblematic works - War Pilot 1950 Hardcover. Condition: Used. Listed at 272.38 USD. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, born the 29 June 1900 at Lyons and disappeared in flight on 31 July 1944 offshore marseilles, is a writer, poet, aviator and report French.Born into a family of French nobility, he spent a happy childhood despite the premature deaths of his father and a brother. A dream student, he nevertheless obtained his baccalaureate in 1917. After his failure in the contest of thenaval school, it is oriented towards fine arts and thearchitecture. Became pilot during his military service in 1922, he is engaged in 1926 by the company Latécoère (future Aeropostale). It carries mail from Toulouse to Senegal then joined theSouth America in 1929. At the same time, it becomes writer. war pilot is a novel of the French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry then exiled to New York. With the mission of bringing Americans into the war, he reminds Americans in this work how much the battle of france had been hard, before publishing a year later the poetic and philosophical tale The little Prince.This account of a mission carried out by Saint-Exupéry in the sky of northern France (summary of the missions of May 23, 1940 and June 6, 1940) with his Bloch MB.174, first published in United States in French and in English under the title Flight to Arras the February 20, 1942, allows Americans to understand that the France fought bravely, especially its air force. In France, the Vichy government agrees to publish the book only at 2 100 copies. It was attacked by the Petainists and the German censor decided to withdraw it from sale in February 1943Despite this ban, clandestine editions circulate : war pilot reads under the coat. Letter to a hostage is a work of the writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.Saint-Exupéry originally wrote this text for the preface to a novel by his best friend, Leon Werth : “ thirty-three days ". The latter then took refuge in the Jura during the fall 1940 because of his Jewish origins. His book did not appear, however, and the writer then considerably reworked his preface by removing any direct reference to his friend, who then became anonymous in the text, and thus symbolized the French " hostage of the occupier. This version was released in June 1943 in an autonomous way. The work is made up of six short chapters, taking up recent elements of the writer's life (trip to Portugal, evocation of Sahara, stay at United States…), mixing in references to his friendship for the dedicatee and his attachment to his country. Land of men is a collection of autobiographical essays byAntoine de Saint-Exupéry, published in february 1939 in France, where it receives the grand prize of the novel of the French Academy, then to United States, in June, under the title of Wind, Sand and Stars (National Book Award, 1939) In this autobiographical work, Saint-Exupéry evokes a series of events in his life, especially his work for theAeropostale.The central element of his account is his accident with his navigator, André Prévot, in the Libyan Sahara in 1935 : the two men, having almost died of thirst, are saved in extremis by a Bedouin who saw them from afar. night flight is a novel ofAntoine de Saint-Exupéry, published on September 19 1931 to Gallimard editions, with a preface byAndre Gide. The novel obtains the same year the Women's award (1931). It is one of the first novels to be republished in paperback format in 1953, in the collection The pocket book, where he carries the notoh 3. The action of this novel takes place in South America, at the time of the beginnings of commercial aviation. Saint-Exupéry, who in 1929 was director of theAeropostale ofArgentina, recounts the life of the head of an airmail company, Rivière, and his team of pilots. Behind a painting of the organization of the Aéropostale, the work deals with the problem of the hero for whom all action is aabsolute. The strength of the heroic man is to give way before this absolute. But man gives value to humanity through the effects of his action. In front of the solitude, it assumes this meaning.The book, when it came out, was prefaced by André Gide and enjoyed considerable success. South mail is a novel byAntoine de Saint-Exupéry published in 1929 to Gallimard editions. After the publication of his news The Aviator in 1926, Saint-Exupéry took his notes and drew this first novel from them. He tells there, from flight notes, the epic of the mail bound for South America via theSpain, the Morocco, the Mauritania until Dakar where this courier embarks on a boat for the other continent. NOTA BENE - Our Offer "Library and Collections": Being book collectors and lovers ourselves, we are Pay attention to the following points: Our shipments are treated with care (Double bubble wrap and padded parcels). Cleaned Books and Objects All our Books or Objects are cleaned, prepared and pampered! (thatr any Book or Object deserves our attention, just by the story he witnessed!). Customer Questions For any remark, question, dissatisfaction or negotiation, Contact us. Do not hesitate to share Your Opinion and/or your expertise, to improve us in the accuracy of our job. 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