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.
