The Little Prince: And Letter to a Hostage.
Book formats
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Hardcover 2 791руб.
Book short specifications
- Author
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, T V F Cuffe
- Pages
- 160
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Series
- Penguin Clothbound Classics
- Language
- english
- Release date
- December 2, 2021
- ISBN
- 978-0-241-50866-4
- GTIN
- 9780241508664
- Weight, g
- 350
About
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.