Description
| Product ID: | 9780241508664 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Penguin Clothbound Classics |
| Title: | The Little Prince |
| Subtitle: | And Letter to a Hostage |
| Authors: | Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
| Page Count: | 160 |
| Subjects: | Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Fantasy, Fiction in translation, Fantasy, Fiction in translation |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry''s timeless tale, reissued in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-12-02 |
