The Little Prince And Letter to a Hostage

Antoine de Saint-Exupery''s timeless tale, reissued in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.br>br> Antoine de Saint-Exupery 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.br>br>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.>

Product details

• Authors: Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• Assisted by: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Illustration), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Illustration), T V F Cuffe (Introduction)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 02.12.2021
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9780241508664
• ISBN: 978-0-241-50866-4
• Pages: 160
• Dimensions (packing): 13.2 x 20.4 x 2.5 cm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Clothbound Classics
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