The Little Prince: And Letter to a Hostage (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

The Little Prince: And Letter to a Hostage (Penguin Clothbound Classics) Hardcover – 2 Dec. 2021
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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.

Publisher- Penguin Classics
Publication date- 2 Dec. 2021
Language- English

Dimensions- 13.8 x 2 x 20.4 cm
Print length- 160 pages

ISBN-10 0241508665