The Little Prince
Juvenile FictionClassicsFairy Tales

The Little Prince

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages
96
Language
English
Published
1943

Overview

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery follows a pilot stranded in the desert who meets a mysterious child from another planet. Through the prince's travels among planets, roses, rulers, businessmen, lamplighters, foxes, and deserts, the book becomes a fable about love, loneliness, imagination, responsibility, and seeing clearly.

Readers of all ages can find The Little Prince simple on the surface and quietly piercing underneath. Saint-Exupery writes with tenderness rather than sentimentality, using the prince's questions to expose adult vanity, haste, and emotional blindness. The story endures because it treats care as something learned through attention: what matters most may be invisible, but it still requires loyalty, patience, memory, tenderness, wonder, responsibility, parting, and grief.

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6 posts from the Bookspace community

Hilal Aldemir@hilllyy· 6mo🇹🇷

‘’ Biliyor musun? İnsan acı çektiğinde güneşin batışını bir başka sever. ‘’

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Ayşegül @rosee· 8mo🇹🇷

İnsan yalnız yüreğiyle doğruyu görebilir. Asıl görülmesi gerekeni gözler göremez..

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Peter@peterpiper· 1y🇵🇭

My purchase of The Little Prince finally arrived! Curious for what's in store!

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Lhen@poks· 6mo🇵🇭

what is essential is invisible to eyes.

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Peter@peterpiper· 12mo🇵🇭

"When you look at the sky, at night, because I will be living in one of them, because I will be laughing in one of them, it will be for you as if all the stars are laughing."

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zafer gökdağ 🇹🇷@zafergokdag· 2mo🇹🇷

'but the eyes are blind. one must look with the heart.'

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