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Malý princ
93 pages, Hardcover
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1,612 books9,016 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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January 3, 2024
mozna jsem to cetla treba uz po pate ale to nevadi pls to je tak strasne super ja miluju filozoficke pohadky ahhhh brecim u toho pokazde uz od te casti kdy tam jsou baobaby, ja nechapu jak nekdo mohl napsat neco tak dobreho nerozumim nechapu mam tolik otazek nechce antoine za mnou taky doletet na letadle a odpovedet mi na ne?
March 16, 2026
vždy som mala rada malého princa. Mali sme ho ako povinné čítanie este na základke. Nechápala som tomu, ale teraz z odstupom času tomu rozumiem. malý princ je v podstate koncept dieťaťa v dospelom človeku. ako keby sa nam snazi povedať ze mame v živote spomaliť a sústrediť sa na to, co je okolo nas.
pytat sa tu istú otázku stále dokola kym na ňu nedostaneme odpoveď. to je trochu filozofické podla mna, ale znova tu mame pohlad dietata. z toho aspektu, že aj filozofi sa pýtali donekonečna tú istú otázku. no u dieťaťa je to vyslovene zvedavosť. malý princ mi poskytol zmysel toho, že sa nemusím báť pýtať. buď to isté alebo hocičo iné. pretože to neznamená byť hlúpym ale zvedavým.
aj tie momenty kedy dieta vidi svet inak. co sa ukazuje hned na začiatku knihy (nechcem spoilovať - had a slon vs. klobúk) Ja, ako uz pomaly dospelá osoba by som videla skôr klobúk, keďže moja predstavivosť už nie je taká rozvinutá.
a to ze sa dospelí zaoberajú číslami!? to je doteraz az príliš aktuálne. az je to desivé.
exupery - you did great 👏🏻
pytat sa tu istú otázku stále dokola kym na ňu nedostaneme odpoveď. to je trochu filozofické podla mna, ale znova tu mame pohlad dietata. z toho aspektu, že aj filozofi sa pýtali donekonečna tú istú otázku. no u dieťaťa je to vyslovene zvedavosť. malý princ mi poskytol zmysel toho, že sa nemusím báť pýtať. buď to isté alebo hocičo iné. pretože to neznamená byť hlúpym ale zvedavým.
aj tie momenty kedy dieta vidi svet inak. co sa ukazuje hned na začiatku knihy (nechcem spoilovať - had a slon vs. klobúk) Ja, ako uz pomaly dospelá osoba by som videla skôr klobúk, keďže moja predstavivosť už nie je taká rozvinutá.
a to ze sa dospelí zaoberajú číslami!? to je doteraz az príliš aktuálne. az je to desivé.
exupery - you did great 👏🏻
February 19, 2026
Kniha Malý Princ je najobľúbenejšia môjho priateľa. Keď sme sa raz o nej rozprávali, vedela som že si ju musím znova prečítať kedže ako mladšia som ju ani nedočítala.
Kniha má v sebe ukrytých veľa krásnych právd a slov. Nezaobišlo sa to ani bez sĺz. Určite si ju prečítam znova.
Kniha má v sebe ukrytých veľa krásnych právd a slov. Nezaobišlo sa to ani bez sĺz. Určite si ju prečítam znova.
April 9, 2025
Četla jsem ji třeba 4x abych pochopila co se tím autor snaží říct, je to filosofická knížka a tak jsem si pokaždé odnesla z knihy jinou myšlenku.
September 30, 2025
sice albertacka verze ale konec byl moc cute a celkem smutny, stejne jsem tomu malymu princi asi moc neprisla na kloub ale bylo to pekne:)
November 20, 2025
Je to má oblíbená kniha, ke které se ráda vracím vždy když mám nějaké horší období v životě. Ta kniha mi pomůže uvědomit si jak si musím vážit maličkostí a opečovávat to co už mám...
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