The little prince and, Letter to a hostage
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 1900-19442021
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery's classic tale - beloved by children and adults alike - now in a beautiful clothbound edition. 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. 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.
Main title:
The little prince and, Letter to a hostage / Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ; translated by T.V.F. Cuffe.
Author:
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 1900-1944, author, illustratorCuffe, T.V.F., translator
Imprint:
London : Penguin Classics, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2021.©1995
Collation:
xxxiii, 118 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Series title:
Notes:
Translated from the French.
ISBN:
9780241508664 (hardback)
Dewey class:
843.912
Language:
EnglishFrench
Subject:
BRN:
468164
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| EASTWOOD | ADULT FICTION | F SAINClassics | Available |
| RYDE | ADULT FICTION | F SAINClassics | Available |