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Saint-Exupéry : a biography / Stacy Schiff.
- Title
- Saint-Exupéry : a biography / Stacy Schiff.
- Author
- Schiff, Stacy
- Publication
- New York : Henry Holt, 2006.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PQ2637.A274 Z829 2006 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xi, 529 p. : ill., map; 21 cm.
- Summary
- Traces the life of the French author and pilot, depicts his complex personality, and looks at his contributions to the war effort.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Note
- "With a new afterword"--Cover.
- "Originally published in hardcover in 1994 by Alfred A. Knopf"--T.p. verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [515]-518) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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).
- ISBN
- 0805079130
- 9780805079135
- LCCN
- ^^2006273417
- OCLC
- 63283832
- SCSB-10601288
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library