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The Little Prince And, Letter to a Hostage - Penguin Clothbound Classics
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Omnibus ed

Hardback (02 Dec 2021)


Publishers Synopsis

Antoine de Saint-Exupérys timeless tale is 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 dont 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 narrators imagination in all sorts of surprising, childlike directions.


Book information

ISBN: 9780241508664
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Pub date: 02 Dec 2021
Edition: Omnibus ed
DEWEY: 843.912
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Sales rank: 5402
Number of pages: 160
Weight: 264g
Height: 135mm
Width: 205mm
Spine width: 19mm