The Little Prince
Descriere
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.
Despre autor
Antoine-Marie Roger, viconte de Saint-Exupéry a fost un poet, jurnalist, aristocrat, romancier și eseist francez, aviator căzut pe frontul antifascist. S-a făcut cunoscut unui cerc larg de cititori în special datorită povestirii „Le Petit Prince“, una din cele mai răspândite cărți din lume, tradusă în trei sute șaizeci și una de limbi.
