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The Little Price
First published in 1943, The Little Prince was written by French writer, poet and aviator, Antoine de Saint-Exupery. It is a classic fable about a stranded pilot's encounter with a young prince who travels the universe in search of knowledge.
After crash-landing in the middle of the Sahara Desert, an unnamed pilot is surprised to come across a young, healthy-looking boy. He is surprised to learn that the boy is a prince of a small planet, and after leaving his planet he travels the galaxy meeting people on other planets. The prince relates tale after tale to the pilot on themes of loneliness, friendship, love, and loss. In the end, the boy returns to his planet leaving his new friend with heartfelt memories of how children seethe world.
This fable has been translated into hundreds of languages and has sold about 200 million copies making it one of the best-selling books in publishing history.
After crash-landing in the middle of the Sahara Desert, an unnamed pilot is surprised to come across a young, healthy-looking boy. He is surprised to learn that the boy is a prince of a small planet, and after leaving his planet he travels the galaxy meeting people on other planets. The prince relates tale after tale to the pilot on themes of loneliness, friendship, love, and loss. In the end, the boy returns to his planet leaving his new friend with heartfelt memories of how children seethe world.
This fable has been translated into hundreds of languages and has sold about 200 million copies making it one of the best-selling books in publishing history.
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Published April 1, 2022
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1,547 books8,737 followersPeople best know French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry for his fairy tale
The Little Prince
(1943).
He flew for the first time at the age of 12 years in 1912 at the Ambérieu airfield and then determined to a pilot. Even after moving to a school in Switzerland and spending summer vacations at the château of the family at Saint-Maurice-de-Rémens in east, he kept that ambition. He repeatedly uses the house at Saint-Maurice.
Later, in Paris, he failed the entrance exams for the naval academy and instead enrolled at the prestigious l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In 1921, Saint-Exupéry, stationed in Strasbourg, began serving in the military. He learned and forever settled his career path as a pilot. After leaving the service in 1923, Saint-Exupéry worked in several professions but in 1926 went back and signed as a pilot for Aéropostale, a private airline that from Toulouse flew mail to Dakar, Senegal. In 1927, Saint-Exupéry accepted the position of airfield chief for Cape Juby in southern Morocco and began his first book, a memoir, called Southern Mail and published in 1929.
He then moved briefly to Buenos Aires to oversee the establishment of an Argentinean mail service, returned to Paris in 1931, and then published Night Flight , which won instant success and the prestigious Prix Femina. Always daring Saint-Exupéry tried from Paris in 1935 to break the speed record for flying to Saigon. Unfortunately, his plane crashed in the Libyan Desert, and he and his copilot trudged through the sand for three days to find help. In 1938, a second plane crash at that time, as he tried to fly between city of New York and Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, seriously injured him. The crash resulted in a long convalescence in New York.
He published Wind, Sand and Stars , next novel, in 1939. This great success won the grand prize for novel of the academy and the national book award in the United States. Saint-Exupéry flew reconnaissance missions at the beginning of the Second World War but went to New York to ask the United States for help when the Germans occupied his country. He drew on his wartime experiences to publish Flight to Arras and Letter to a Hostage in 1942.
Later in 1943, Saint-Exupéry rejoined his air squadron in northern Africa. From earlier plane crashes, Saint-Exupéry still suffered physically, and people forbade him to fly, but he insisted on a mission. From Borgo, Corsica, on 31 July 1944, he set to overfly occupied region. He never returned.
He flew for the first time at the age of 12 years in 1912 at the Ambérieu airfield and then determined to a pilot. Even after moving to a school in Switzerland and spending summer vacations at the château of the family at Saint-Maurice-de-Rémens in east, he kept that ambition. He repeatedly uses the house at Saint-Maurice.
Later, in Paris, he failed the entrance exams for the naval academy and instead enrolled at the prestigious l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In 1921, Saint-Exupéry, stationed in Strasbourg, began serving in the military. He learned and forever settled his career path as a pilot. After leaving the service in 1923, Saint-Exupéry worked in several professions but in 1926 went back and signed as a pilot for Aéropostale, a private airline that from Toulouse flew mail to Dakar, Senegal. In 1927, Saint-Exupéry accepted the position of airfield chief for Cape Juby in southern Morocco and began his first book, a memoir, called Southern Mail and published in 1929.
He then moved briefly to Buenos Aires to oversee the establishment of an Argentinean mail service, returned to Paris in 1931, and then published Night Flight , which won instant success and the prestigious Prix Femina. Always daring Saint-Exupéry tried from Paris in 1935 to break the speed record for flying to Saigon. Unfortunately, his plane crashed in the Libyan Desert, and he and his copilot trudged through the sand for three days to find help. In 1938, a second plane crash at that time, as he tried to fly between city of New York and Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, seriously injured him. The crash resulted in a long convalescence in New York.
He published Wind, Sand and Stars , next novel, in 1939. This great success won the grand prize for novel of the academy and the national book award in the United States. Saint-Exupéry flew reconnaissance missions at the beginning of the Second World War but went to New York to ask the United States for help when the Germans occupied his country. He drew on his wartime experiences to publish Flight to Arras and Letter to a Hostage in 1942.
Later in 1943, Saint-Exupéry rejoined his air squadron in northern Africa. From earlier plane crashes, Saint-Exupéry still suffered physically, and people forbade him to fly, but he insisted on a mission. From Borgo, Corsica, on 31 July 1944, he set to overfly occupied region. He never returned.
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March 6, 2024
Loads of people whose book taste I like, mention The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry as one of their all time favourite books. So I read it this week. I agree it is a beautiful story, well deserving of the love it gets.. A story about core values and wonder, joy and hope and one that that appeals to children and adults.
It isn’t my favourite book of this sort of theme.. that would be Eric by Shaun Tan … and then Letters from a Lost Uncle by Mervyn Peake.
But thoroughly enjoyable and comforting as I recover from Shingles ( which wasn’t so nice).
It isn’t my favourite book of this sort of theme.. that would be Eric by Shaun Tan … and then Letters from a Lost Uncle by Mervyn Peake.
But thoroughly enjoyable and comforting as I recover from Shingles ( which wasn’t so nice).
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December 30, 2024The book belongs to the list of books that you can read with great interest at any age. What's interesting is that its perception changes with each age, it becomes more mature and conscious.
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