No story is more beloved by children and grown-ups alike than this wise, enchanting fable. One day, the author reminisces, when his plane was forced down in the Sahara, a thousand miles from help, he encountered a most extraordinary small person. "If you please, " said the stranger, "draw me a sheep." And thus begins the remarkable history of the Little Prince.
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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
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I would like to recommend [...] the wonderful new translation by Ros and Chloe Schwartz of this modern classic.
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--Francofil online forum --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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This book is full of clever insights into the meaning of life. The Prince is stranded on a planet where he has to protect a rose which doesn't like draughts with a glass cover and regularly clean out the volcanoes to prevent them erupting! He meets characters who are obsessed, for example, with money and by asking simple childlike questions exposes their folly.
A joy to possess and revisit.
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I read The Little Prince for the first time when I was ten years old. Now I am 28 and I have a collection of it in more than 20 languages. It talks about the desert, the stars, and men who don't have roots.
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I love this book. It is a children's book, but even an 80 year old can learn so much from it. It teaches that the inside of people are what matters, not what a person owns, or looks like, or has. It is so cute, too. "Draw me a sheep!" Yet through all of the wisdom the book gives a very deep sense of sorrow and heartache. Sometimes-even now, weeks after I have finished the book-I wonder if the sheep ate the flower. I nearly cried when the little prince died. It is the best.
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