The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The little prince is, paradoxically, an extremely famous book which many people reading this will not have heard of. It is a delightful story, which was originally written by Antoine de Saint-Exupery in 1943. He did not live to see it translated into English and published here the following year, for he died in 1944. Yet despite this, he is a national figure in France. He wrote many other books and essays, and during the occupation of France he was exiled to America, where he wrote this book, but he flew as a reconnaissance pilot, winning three 'Croix de Guerre'. He also had successes as an inventor, and made long distance flight record attempts amongst other ...

At the simplest level, The Little Prince is the story of a pilot whose plane has crashed in the Sahara Desert. There he meets an "extraordinary small person", the little prince, who shares stories about his travels in the following days they spend in the desert, as the narrator attempts to repair his plane. Like all the best children's books (and I would question if this one is actually intended for children at all), the story deals with deep themes and is ultimately an incredibly moving allegory on friendship, love and death. The narrator begins by explaining how as a child, and later as an adult, he realised that most ...

Here should be the bedside book of any human being concerned not to miss its passage on Earth. There is the Bible and there is the Little Prince. It is often said that the main sentence of this book is "the essential is invisible for the eyes". It is true, but to my opinion, we don’t grant to this sentence the direction the author wanted to give. Saint-Exupery doesn’t give instruction or rule of life. He notes and helps us to do so. He notes that our perception of the world depends entirely on our heart. Each page, each line repeats us this report in different words: the elephant in the boa, the sheep in the box, the flower ...