The Little Prince: And Letter to a Hostage

Author: de Saint-Exupéry, Antoine

Brand: Penguin Classics

Color: Orange

Binding: hardcover

Number Of Pages: 160

Release Date: 19-08-2025

Part Number: 9780241508664

Details: 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.

EAN: 9780241508664

Package Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches

Languages: English, French