Description
Title: Little Prince, The & Letter to a Hostage
Author: DE SAINT-EXUPERY ANTOINE
Illustrator: DE SAINT-EXUPERY ANTOINE
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 25/01/2001
Imprint: PENGUIN CLASSIC
Price: $15.00
Publishing status: Active
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…
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
ISBN: 9780141185620
Weight: 196g
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm
Pages: 160
Edition: 01