The Little Prince

By Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de

Book Id: WPLBN0003466802
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Reproduction Date: 9/18/2014

Title:	The Little Prince
Author:	Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Non Fiction, Psychology, Children's fiction
Collections:	Authors Community, Adventure
Historic Publication Date:	2014
Publisher:	Self-published

Member Page:	Maria Butsko
Citation APA MLA Chicago De Saint-Exupéry, B. A. (2014). The Little Prince. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
The Little Prince is a poetic tale, with watercolour illustrations by the author, in which a pilot stranded in the desert meets a young prince fallen to Earth from a tiny asteroid. The story is philosophical and includes social criticism, remarking on the strangeness of the adult world. It was written during a period when Saint-Exupéry fled to North America subsequent to the Fall of France during the Second World War, witnessed first hand by the author and captured in his memoir Flight to Arras.[11] The adult fable, according to one review, is actually "...an allegory of Saint-Exupéry's own life—his search for childhood certainties and interior peace, his mysticism, his belief in human courage and brotherhood.... but also an allusion to the tortured nature of their relationship."