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The Little Prince (Paperback)

by Antoine De Saint-Exupery (Author), Katherine Woods (Translator)
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  • Paperback: 96 pages
  • Publisher: Egmont; New edition edition (10 Jan 1991)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0749707232
  • ISBN-13: 978-0749707231
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.4 x 0.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (55 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,117 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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You could be excused for thinking that this book is one containing a simple story for young children about a Little Prince. How wrong you would be! This is far from the truth: it is much more. It is a complex story containing lots of ambiguities about a child with golden hair. These are all eruditely discussed before the actual story begins, in a section entitled "How It All Began". "Is The Little Prince a story written for children or is it a meditation intended for adults?"

The Art of Living is discussed, along with a system of values, and the train of thought behind them is the unifying element. You are invited to "look at the book, and allow yourself to travel from one image to the next... " It was written and published more than 50 years ago in the USA, and the author was a Frenchman who illustrated the book himself; it was later translated by Kathryn Woods. The Little Prince is still very popular and has now been translated into many languages. Shortly after it was first written, the author died--disappearing together with his plane somewhere over the Mediterranean. This Gift edition contains all the original illustrations, plus some more original drawings that came to light later and have been published here for the first time.--Susan Naylor

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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This parable tells the story of an air pilot who meets a Little Prince when he has to make a forced landing in the Sahara Desert. The Little Prince tells him wise and enchanted stories.

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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An unforgettable, heart-warming story, 14 April 2004
By Beautiful Freak (Oxford, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Little Prince (Wordsworth Children's Classics) (Paperback)
Possibly the most beautiful book of the twentieth century, the Little Prince will appeal to the hearts of adults and children alike. It tells the story of a little prince, who falls to earth from a star, and of the airman, stranded in the desert by the crash of his place, who seeks to understand the prince's secret. The premise is simple and the story simply told, and yet Saint-Exupery creates a tale that is full of poignancy and hope.

As the little prince journeys the planets around his own home, Asteroid B612, he encounters a variety of individuals: the Conceited Man, the King, the Accountant, the Drunkard, the Geographer and the Lamplighter. Each one becomes a parable of human nature: or rather, the nature of adults. The Little Prince is a story about childhood, mortality (made all the more poignant by the fact that Saint-Exupery died in action in WW2, the year after the book's publication), friendship, love, hope and the magic in our lives that we are at risk of losing as we grow older. For me it held enormous personal emotional value.

If you can manage to read it in the original French then by all means do, but any translation still conveys some of the treasure in Saint-Exupery's words. Personally I recommend the Wordsworth Children's Classics edition for its translation, if not the poorly reproduced illustrations, but I think I may just have a personal bias for the first edition I read.

For a so-called 'children's book,' this is one that will live with you for the rest of your life.

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Little Classic, 2 Oct 2003
By S. Cornforth "Steve Cornforth" (Liverpool, UK England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Little Prince: Sixtieth-Anniversary Gift Edition (Hardcover)
I first read this almost thirty years ago as part of my French A Level course. I have read it every couple of years ever since. It has always been one of my favourite all time books. Is it a childrens' or a grown up's book. Who cares? It speaks to everyone.

It is the simple tale of a pilot who is grounded in the desert and meets the enigmatic Prince who has come from another planet. A tiny planet inhabited by the Prince and his beloved flower - and the constant fear of Baobab trees which could overwhelm everything. It is so small that he once watched 44 sunsets. He watches these when he is sad. How sad he must have been on that day observes the narrator. It is a beautiful story about friendship. We laugh as much as we cry. The author's drawing of the empty landscape after his friend's departure still chokes me.

But there is also the humour. Normally at the expense of our bizarre adult world. The Prince meets a merchant who sells a pill that means there is no need to drink. This could save several minutes each day. The Little Prince observes that if he had that time he would go to a fountain and have a nice cool drink.

St. Exupery is much loved in France. He was even on the money before the Euro arrived. This is much deserved for this little classic alone. Read it in English or French or whatever you like. But read it - now.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Brill Book, 16 Mar 2008
`The Little Prince' is a true classic tale. It is very well-known and very well-loved. This is the complete and unabridged book written by Antoine De Saint-Exupery.
Here is the plot of the story: the boy in this story lives on a planet on his own, so he visited some other planets. A king inhabited the first planet. He looked very majestic. He sat on a beautiful throne and had a curiosity for yawning - he ordered the little prince to yawn! On the second planet, there lived a proud man who called our main character in this book, an admirer! A drunkard was who lived on the third planet; the prince stayed only for a short while and he was very sad indeed! The fourth planet belonged to a businessperson - a very, very, very busy one as well. The fifth planet was tiny! It was so small; it only fitted a lamppost and a lamppost lighter! The sixth planet was much larger and an old man occupied it who was a geographer. And the seventh planet was very unlike the rest - it was Earth...
I really liked this book and would positively rate it 9/ 10. I would strongly recommend it to anyone in the need of a very good read.
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