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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

In the Beginning... *+*+*+*+*+*+*+* This book was given to me as a birthday present by someone who loves me dearly. In turn I have come to love this fabled imaginary 'The Little Prince' in his own right. For me on reading a review, dependent on the genre of the book of course, I need to know a little of the author to understand the motivation behind putting ink to paper to pen their literary work of art. In Antoine de Saint-Exupery's case, I think it imperative to try and understand a little of the reasons the writer set his imaginary brainchild into words... Basic Background... *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+* De ...  Read the complete review

This is a beautiful book, written superbly for children....If I remember rightly Saint Euxupery wrote this book based on his hallucinations in the dessert when he crashed his plane - I believe that the "adult" version of this book is called terre des hommes. Anyway, back to the book in hand....I have managed to convince many people to read this book in the last year or so, there are two different opinions you can get from this book, the opinion you have as a child under 10 and the opinion you get once you hit 17 or so.... ...I first read this book as a child, and thought it was wonderful, it felt like reading a grown up book, the way it ...  Read the complete review