or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
 
 
More Buying Choices
55 used & new from £0.01
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
 
   
The Little Prince
 
See larger image 
Share your own customer images
Publisher: learn how customers can search inside this book.

The Little Prince (Paperback)

by Antoine De Saint-Exupery (Author), Katherine Woods (Translator)
4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (61 customer reviews)
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.16 & this item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions
You Save: £1.83 (31%)
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
In stock.
Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk. Gift-wrap available.

Want guaranteed delivery by Tuesday, November 17? Choose Express delivery at checkout. See Details
32 new from £1.74 23 used from £0.01
Other Editions: RRP: Our Price: Other Offers:
Hardcover (New Edition) £9.99 £5.96 41 used & new from £1.06
Paperback (New edition) £1.99 £1.99 156 used & new from £0.01
School & Library Binding 4 used & new from £42.99
Paperback (Large Print) £10.95 £8.06 13 used & new from £3.99
Audio CD (Audiobook) £16.75 £16.85 9 used & new from £16.85
Show more editions and formats

Special Offers and Product Promotions

Frequently Bought Together

The Little Prince + A Guide for Grown-Ups: Essential Wisdom from the Collected Works of Antoine de Saint-Exupery + Jonathan Livingston Seagull: A Story
Price For All Three: £13.09

Show availability and delivery details

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

A Guide for Grown-Ups: Essential Wisdom from the Collected Works of Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A Guide for Grown-Ups: Essential Wisdom from the Collected Works of Antoine de Saint-Exupery

by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
£4.45
Wind, Sand and Stars (Penguin Modern Classics)

Wind, Sand and Stars (Penguin Modern Classics)

by Antoine Saint-Exupery
4.8 out of 5 stars (6)  £5.99
Jonathan Livingston Seagull: A Story

Jonathan Livingston Seagull: A Story

by Richard Bach
4.5 out of 5 stars (82)  £4.48
Le Petit Prince (French)

Le Petit Prince (French)

by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
4.8 out of 5 stars (8)  £10.00
Le Petit Prince: Avec des aquarelles de l'auteur (Folio Junior)

Le Petit Prince: Avec des aquarelles de l'auteur (Folio Junior)

by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
£5.85
› Explore similar items

Product details

  • Paperback: 96 pages
  • Publisher: Egmont; New edition edition (10 Jan 1991)
  • Language French
  • ISBN-10: 0749707232
  • ISBN-13: 978-0749707231
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.4 x 0.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (61 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,822 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

    Popular in these categories:

    #1 in  Books > Fiction > Authors, A-Z > S > Saint-Exupery, Antoine de
    #28 in  Books > Children's Books > Classics

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

Product Description

Amazon.co.uk Review

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.



Product Description

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.

Tags Customers Associate with This Product

 (What's this?)
Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
 
(4)
(3)
(2)
See all 6 tags...

Your tags: Add your first tag
 
See most popular tags

What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?

The Little Prince
92% buy the item featured on this page:
The Little Prince 4.7 out of 5 stars (61)
£4.16
Le Petit Prince: Avec des aquarelles de l'auteur (Folio Junior)
3% buy
Le Petit Prince: Avec des aquarelles de l'auteur (Folio Junior)
£5.85
Le Petit Prince (French)
3% buy
Le Petit Prince (French) 4.8 out of 5 stars (8)
£10.00
A Guide for Grown-Ups: Essential Wisdom from the Collected Works of Antoine de Saint-Exupery
1% buy
A Guide for Grown-Ups: Essential Wisdom from the Collected Works of Antoine de Saint-Exupery
£4.45
Explore similar items
 

Customer Reviews

61 Reviews
5 star:
 (54)
4 star:
 (3)
3 star:
 (1)
2 star:
 (1)
1 star:
 (2)
 
 
 
 
 
Average Customer Review
4.7 out of 5 stars (61 customer reviews)
 
 
 
 
Share your thoughts with other customers:
Most Helpful Customer Reviews

 
29 of 29 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
(TOP 1000 REVIEWER)      
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.

Comment Comments (2) | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
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
(REAL NAME)   
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.

Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful book in an altogether inadequate translation, 23 Dec 2003
By A Customer
This review is from: The Little Prince (The Anniversary Edition) (Paperback)
Richard Howard's cold, hard translation of Le Petit Prince loses all the grace and charm of the original work. Seek out Katherine Woods's original translation of this book--although she was criticized for translating the story too literally, Howard's "streamlined" version loses absolutely EVERYTHING. I've only studied French for a few years, but I've already found one word that he has mistranslated. Concerning the picture of the baobabs, Saint-Exupery uses the word "grandiose." While Woods used "magnificent and impressive," Howard replaced this with "big." Despicable. I realize he probably misread the word, but I was already unhappy with this new version as I was reading through it. The rest of his translation proved to be completely pointless. He does not come close to matching Woods.
I'm also offended that the publishers would try to replace Woods's classic translation with one that has language they consider to be more modern. Le Petit Prince was written in the 1940s with what would assumedly be French of the 1940s. Thus, wouldn't it make sense to keep it in English of the 1940s?
Please do your best to obtain a copy of a version of The Little Prince from well before 2000. Howard has no love for our little prince. His rendition of the book holds no compassion.
Comment Comment (1) | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)


Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
 
 
 
Most Recent Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful book forAdults and Children alike
The Little Prince, works on two levels, for Children and Adults,
if you have not come across this book, buy it, you won't be disappointed. Read more
Published 7 days ago by J. Wilkinson

3.0 out of 5 stars Tonstant Weader frowed up
If you have always wondered what would happen if fotherington-tomas was magically transplanted to the world of the Clangers, you will love this book. Read more
Published 1 month ago by hwade17

5.0 out of 5 stars Love this book
This book is wonderful, the story changes from reading it as a kid to reading it as an adult.
Wether you read it with naive eyes or with a more experienced view on life, you... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Annalisaaa

4.0 out of 5 stars Strange but good!
Had heard of this book before, but never really knew much about it other than it was supposedly 'a classic'. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Ms. E. L. Roberts

5.0 out of 5 stars The Little Prince, a little book
The Little Prince has been one of my favourite books for a long time now and it is considered to be a childrens story for grown ups. Read more
Published 2 months ago by C. Ballymakeery

5.0 out of 5 stars The Little Prince
This is one of my favourite books. It is such an innocent tale of a little Prince who finds a pilot stranded after his plane has crashed. Read more
Published 3 months ago by J. LO

5.0 out of 5 stars Totally satisfied
The product has been delievert in the promised time and condition. I am absolutely satisfied.
Published 5 months ago by Janina

5.0 out of 5 stars le petit prince
If you struggle with the origonal french verison (shame on you) then here is you answer. A beautiful story which shows adults as they are and children, and the occasional... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Mr. M. Keir

5.0 out of 5 stars Charming
I loved this book. It's a children's book, however there's a message in there that should be read by people of all ages. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Kirsty B

4.0 out of 5 stars The Little Prince

I first read this remarkable book, by the French aviator, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, in 1976, while working as an 'Ex-Pat' on an assignment in Calcutta (now Kolkata). Read more
Published 9 months ago by David Schenck

Only search this product's reviews


Customer Discussions

This product's forum
Discussion Replies Latest Post
No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 


Active discussions in related forums
   
Related forums

Listmania!

Create a Listmania! list

Look for similar items by category

Look for similar items by subject







i.e., each product must be in subject 1 AND subject 2 AND ...

Feedback

Ad

Your Recent History

 (What's this?)

After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.