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The Little Prince

The Little Prince

by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Hardback
Publication Date: 15/09/2017
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Written during World War II, The Little Prince tells of the friendship between the narrator, an aviator stranded in the Sahara desert, and a mysterious boy whom he encounters there. Ruler of a tiny asteroid of which he is the only inhabitant, the Little Prince chats disarmingly about his curious adventures in space and since arriving on earth; of his distant home and of his love for a beautiful and capricious rose, to whom he longs to return. A moving and deceptively simple tale, it was described by Saint-Exupery as a children's story for adults, and it works on several levels as an allegory of his own life, or of the human condition. Children love it for its deadpan fantasy, for its sense of amused bafflement at the grown-up world and for the author's attractive watercolour illustrations which are an integral part of the book.
ISBN:
9781857155242
9781857155242
Category:
Classic fiction (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
15-09-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Random House Children's Books
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
211x162x11mm
Weight:
0.23kg
Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupery was born on 29 June 1900 in Lyon, France. He first flew in a plane when he was twelve years old, an experience which ignited a life-long love of aviation and adventure.

After serving in the French air force, Saint-Exupery joined a pioneering aviation company and helped to establish the first airmail routes over north Africa and South America, surviving numerous accidents and gaining the Legion d'honneur for his service. His experiences inspired several books, including Night Flight (1931), and Wind, Sand and Stars (1939), which were awarded France's highest literary awards.

He wrote The Little Prince during a sojourn in the US, where it was first published in 1943, before he returned to France to fly military reconnaissance missions. On 31 July 1944, Saint-Exupery took off from an air base in Corsica, but never returned. His disappearance remained the subject of speculation until 1998, when his identity bracelet was recovered from the sea off the coast of Marseille.

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Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage) General fiction (Children's / Teenage) Classic fiction (Children's / Teenage) Traditional stories (Children's / Teenage)
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