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Le Petit Prince
A pilot meets a traveller from a tiny planet, and learns to see friendship, love and responsibility with new eyes.
The little traveller’s encounters with adults reveal the strange importance people attach to ownership, authority and counting. Against those habits, the story offers the patient work of knowing another being. This model takes its cover from Gallimard’s seventieth-anniversary edition.
Why I kept it
One of my favourite books.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, a French writer and aviator, published it in 1943 with his own drawings. A pilot stranded in the desert meets a traveller from a tiny planet.
The little traveller's encounters with adults reveal the strange importance people attach to ownership, authority and counting. Against those habits, the story offers the patient work of getting to know another being.
It is a philosophy book in disguise.
Author
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was a French writer and aviator. His experience flying mail routes and travelling across deserts informed books about solitude, friendship and human responsibility. First published in 1943, Le Petit Prince brings those concerns into a fable illustrated with his own drawings.
About the author & bookAbout this edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- W × H × D
- 160 × 230 × 11 mm
- Publisher
- Gallimard Jeunesse
ISBN 9782070653119
Binding, interior and print finishes reconstructed for this showcase.