The Little Prince

And Letter to a Hostage

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, T V F Cuffe

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French

Penguin Classics
15 June 2022

Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Fantasy; Fiction in translation

Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics

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...

By: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Illustrated by: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Introduction by: T V F Cuffe
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 206mm, Width: 136mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 263g
ISBN: 9780241508664
ISBN 10: 0241508665
Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 15 June 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Author, Illustrator) Writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944), was born into an aristocratic French family at the turn of the century. Saint-Exupery was preoccupied with aviation from a young age; a passion which would lead him into the French Air Force. His first two books, Southern Mail and Night Flight, are distinguished by a poetic evocation of the romance and discipline of flying. Later works, including Wind, Sand and Stars and Flight to Arras, stress his humanistic philosophy. Saint-Exupery's popular children's book The Little Prince is also read by adults for its allegorical meaning. In 1944, Saint-Exupery's plane disappeared during a mission in World War II.