The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 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.

SPECIFICATIONS:

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery - Антуан де Сент-Экзюпери

Publisher:Penguin

Language:English

Publication Date:2021

Number of pages:160 pst

Format:Hardcover

Width:130 mm / 5,1'

Height:205 mm / 8,1'

Weight:180 g

Illustrations:Black and white

ISBN:9780241508664