Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's timeless tale,reissued in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. 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.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241508664Number of pages: 160Weight: 272 gDimensions: 204 x 138 x 20 mm
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