The Little Prince And Letter to a Hostage
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Pages: 118
Language: English
Published: 2006-06-15
ISBN: 9780141185620
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery first published <i>The Little Prince</i> in 1943, only a year before his plane vanished over the Mediterranean Sea 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 pilot downed in the Sahara Desert, frantically trying to repair his wrecked plane. His efforts are interrupted one day by the miraculous appearance 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, one confined only by the limits of the imagination, by the horizon of a child's wonder...
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