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Publication
Penguin Books Ltd (2000), Edition: 2 Open Market Ed, Paperback, 160 pages
Description
Moral allegory and spiritual autobiography, The Little Princeis the most translated book in the French language. With a timeless charm it tells the story of a little boy who leaves the safety of his own tiny planet to travel the universe, learning the vagaries of adult behaviour through a series of extraordinary encounters. His personal odyssey culminates in a voyage to Earth and further adventures.Letter to a Hostage,which contains certain themes that were to appear in The Little Prince,is Saint-Exupery's optimistic and humane open letter to a Jewish intellectual hiding in occupied France in 1943.
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LibraryThing member MandaTheStrange
"All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
This was one of my favourite stories when I was little a girl, it was a story filled with adventure, friendship and courage and I devoured every page each time I read it.
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Although I'm a grown-up, I'll always remember being a little girl, with fearless determination and an unstoppable imagination. Always exploring, making friends and asking questions, just like The Little Prince.
This is a book that everyone was meant to read, and it doesn't matter if you're a grown-up! It's life summed up in a children's book, written by an extraordinary man who met an untimely end. I only wish he could have shared more of his stories.
The stars have never shone brighter.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
This was one of my favourite stories when I was little a girl, it was a story filled with adventure, friendship and courage and I devoured every page each time I read it.
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now as a woman, it is still one of my favourite stories, though the words are familiar, the story is far more complex, heartbreaking and deeply profound. I could never understand its true meaning until I became a "grown up". Although I'm a grown-up, I'll always remember being a little girl, with fearless determination and an unstoppable imagination. Always exploring, making friends and asking questions, just like The Little Prince.
This is a book that everyone was meant to read, and it doesn't matter if you're a grown-up! It's life summed up in a children's book, written by an extraordinary man who met an untimely end. I only wish he could have shared more of his stories.
The stars have never shone brighter.
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Language
Original language
French
Physical description
160 p.; 7.87 inches
ISBN
0141180927 / 9780141180922