The Little Prince : And Letter to a Hostage (Penguin Clothbound Classics) (UK)

The Little Prince : And Letter to a Hostage (Penguin Clothbound Classics) Hardback - 02 Dec 2021 by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Author), T V F Cuffe Introducer), UK.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery's timeless tale, reissued in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.

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.

Product details

• Format Hardback | 160 pages
• Dimensions 138 x 204 x 20mm | 272g
• Publication date 02 Dec 2021
• Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
• Imprint Penguin Classics
• Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
• Language English
• ISBN13 9780241508664