Antoine de Saint-Exupery 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.
Autor |
Antoine De Saint-Exupery |
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Vydavateľ |
Penguin Books Ltd |
Ilustrátori |
Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
Jazyk | anglický |
Väzba | Paperback |
Počet strán | 160 |
Formát | 197 x 133 x 9 |
Hmotnosť | 242 |
EAN | 9780141185620 |
Rok vydania | 2001 |
Edícia |
Klasická beletria |