The Little Prince - And Letter to a Hostage
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| Verlag | Penguin Books UK |
| Auflage | 2021 |
| Seiten | 160 |
| Format | 13,8 x 20,4 x 2,0 cm |
| Gewicht | 263 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| Reihe | Penguin Clothbound Classics |
| EAN | 9780241508664 |
| Bestell-Nr | 24150866EA |
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.