The Little Prince: And Letter to a Hostage

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The Little Prince: And Letter to a Hostage
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
15 June 2022
Pages
160
ISBN
9780241508664

The Little Prince: And Letter to a Hostage

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s classic tale - beloved by children and adults alike - now in a beautiful clothbound edition

Antoine de Saint-Exupery first published The Little Prince in 1943, only a year before his plane vanished over the Mediterranean during a reconnaissance mission. Nearly eighty years later, this fable of love and loneliness has lost none of its power.

The narrator is a downed pilot in the Sahara Desert, frantically trying to repair his wrecked plane. His efforts are interrupted one day by the apparition of a little prince, who asks him to draw a sheep. In the face of an overpowering mystery, you don’t dare disobey, the narrator recalls. Absurd as it seemed, a thousand miles from all inhabited regions and in danger of death, I took a scrap of paper and a pen out of my pocket. And so begins their dialogue, which stretches the narrator’s imagination in all sorts of surprising, childlike directions.

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