Antoine de Saint-Exupery's timeless tale of love and loneliness, now widely available in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time
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 Translated by:
T V F Cuffe Imprint: Penguin Country of Publication: United Kingdom Edition: Open Market ed Dimensions:
Height: 198mm,
Width: 129mm,
Spine: 11mm
Weight: 196g ISBN:9780141185620 ISBN 10: 0141185627 Series:Penguin Modern Classics Pages: 160 Publication Date:02 January 2001 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
