# The Little Prince

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- Book: [The Little Prince](https://www.bookquiver.com/antoine-de-saint-exupery/the-little-prince) ([The Little Prince.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/antoine-de-saint-exupery/the-little-prince.md))
- Authors: [Antoine de Saint-Exupéry](https://www.bookquiver.com/antoine-de-saint-exupery)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4150-866-4
- Pages: 160
- Published: 2021-12-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry first published The Little Prince in 1943, only a year before his plane vanished over the Mediterranean Sea during a reconnaissance mission. Nearly eighty years later, this fable of love and loneliness has lost none of its power. The narrator is a pilot downed in the Sahara Desert, frantically trying to repair his wrecked plane. His efforts are interrupted one day by the miraculous appearance 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, one confined only by the limits of the imagination, by the horizon of a child's wonder...