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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.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: The little prince
• Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160
• EAN: 9780141185620
• ISBN: 01-411-8562-7
• ID: 00052497
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Weight: 254 g
• Dimensions: 195 × 133 × 10 mm
• Published: 2000

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