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On a hot summer day, Major de Saint-Exupéry went on a reconnaissance flight and disappeared without a trace... It seems that the star he had been striving to reach all his life has finally shown him the way.

The sky has always been the second home of a pilot-writer, and devotion to flight, like the wings of an aircraft, inspired, lifted him higher and higher, and then, in a rapid peak, made him bare his soul on the pages of short stories and novels.

The author's combination of romance and front-line brotherhood, fantastic dreams and the realities of war, an unbridled desire for free flight, and the experience of occupation lifts us higher and higher and assures us that there is nothing better in life than the sky and flight.

The Planet of the Apes and Other Writings is a collection of three iconic literary masterpieces written by Exupéry at the height of the Second World War.

In The Night Flight, the author takes us through the soaring tale of the fanatical head of the Argentine airmail company Riviera, who only comes to realise that love and duty in this world are contradictory but equivalent after the loss of a devoted employee pilot.

The novel Planet of the People is a long, picturesque journey dedicated to Henri Guillaume's friend from Aéropostale: the touching preparation for the first flight, an extreme winter flight through the Andes, ancient volcanoes visible through the window, a flight over the Sahara, and a plane crash in the desert... And around the storms of trials and picturesque landscapes - reflections on the meaning of life and the place of man in the world . Antoine de Saint-Exupéry has a conversation with a friend trapped in the occupation and shares his own feelings caused by the war. The faces of people who lose their homes to save their fortunes, the desire to regain freedom for those who were held hostage in occupied France, and the fear of losing their spiritual light become the stars of heaven that make the author not give up and climb higher and higher into the free sky.