The Little Prince: And Letter to a Hostage
Author: Saint-Exupery, Antoine De
ISBN: 9780241508664
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year First Published: 2022
Pages: 160
Dimensions: 205mm x 135mm x 18mm
Format: Hardback
Description:
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 Sea during a reconnaissance mission. Nearly eighty years later, this fable of love and loneliness has lost none of its power.
The narrator is a pilot downed in the Sahara Desert, frantically trying to repair his wrecked plane. His efforts are interrupted one day by the miraculous appearance 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, one confined only by the limits of the imagination, by the horizon of a child's wonder...
ISBN: 9780241508664
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year First Published: 2022
Pages: 160
Dimensions: 205mm x 135mm x 18mm
Format: Hardback
Description:
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 Sea during a reconnaissance mission. Nearly eighty years later, this fable of love and loneliness has lost none of its power.
The narrator is a pilot downed in the Sahara Desert, frantically trying to repair his wrecked plane. His efforts are interrupted one day by the miraculous appearance 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, one confined only by the limits of the imagination, by the horizon of a child's wonder...
