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The Little Prince: And Letter to a Hostage
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The Little Prince: And Letter to a Hostage

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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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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
15 June 2022
Pages
160
ISBN
9780241508664

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.

Format
Hardback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
15 June 2022
Pages
160
ISBN
9780241508664

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