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The Little Prince (Wordsworth Children's Classics) (Wordsworth Collection) by de Saint-Exup?ry, Antoine; Testot-Ferry, Irene is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Amazon.com Review Antoine de Saint-Exup?ry first published The Little Prince in 1943, only a year before his Lockheed P-38 vanished over the Mediterranean during a reconnaissance mission. More than a half century 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, well, 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. The Little Prince describes his journey from planet to planet, each tiny world populated by a single adult. It's a wonderfully inventive sequence, which evokes not only the great fairy tales but also such monuments of postmodern whimsy as Italo Calvino's I have good reason to believe that there is an old rat living somewhere on my planet. I hear h

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Author

de Saint-Exup?ry, Antoine; Testot-Ferry, Irene

Publisher

Wordsworth Editions Ltd

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780156465113

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Children'S, Fiction

Rating

4.28 / 5 (2,003 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13