The Little Prince

And Letter to a Hostage

von Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Belletristik Besonderheiten Belletristik in Übersetzung
• ISBN: 9780241508664
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 02.12.2021
• Größe: 202 x 133 mm
• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
• Übersetzung: T. V. F. Cuffe