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The Little Prince Paperback – May 15, 2000
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Now with the restored original artwork, the beloved classic story of a young prince's travels throughout space—a profound tale about loneliness and loss, and love and friendship.
A pilot crashes in the Sahara Desert and encounters a strange young boy who calls himself the Little Prince. The Little Prince has traveled there from his home on a lonely, distant asteroid with a single rose. The story that follows is a beautiful and at times heartbreaking meditation on human nature.
The Little Prince is one of the best-selling and most translated books of all time, universally cherished by children and adults alike, and Richard Howard's translation of the beloved classic beautifully reflects Saint-Exupéry's unique and gifted style, bringing the English text as close as possible to the French in language, style, and spirit. In this special edition, the artwork has been restored to match in detail and in color Saint-Exupéry's original artwork.
This definitive English-language edition of The Little Prince will capture the hearts of readers of all ages.
- Print length96 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Grade level4 - 6
- Lexile measure710L
- Dimensions8 x 5 x 0.31 inches
- PublisherClarion Books
- Publication dateMay 15, 2000
- ISBN-100156012197
- ISBN-13978-0156012195
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The Little Prince describes his journey from planet to planet, each tiny world populated by a single adult. It's a wonderfully inventive sequence, which evokes not only the great fairy tales but also such monuments of postmodern whimsy as Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. And despite his tone of gentle bemusement, Saint-Exupéry pulls off some fine satiric touches, too. There's the king, for example, who commands the Little Prince to function as a one-man (or one-boy) judiciary: I have good reason to believe that there is an old rat living somewhere on my planet. I hear him at night. You could judge that old rat. From time to time you will condemn him to death. That way his life will depend on your justice. But you'll pardon him each time for economy's sake. There's only one rat. The author pokes similar fun at a businessman, a geographer, and a lamplighter, all of whom signify some futile aspect of adult existence. Yet his tale is ultimately a tender one--a heartfelt exposition of sadness and solitude, which never turns into Peter Pan-style treacle. Such delicacy of tone can present real headaches for a translator, and in her 1943 translation, Katherine Woods sometimes wandered off the mark, giving the text a slightly wooden or didactic accent. Happily, Richard Howard (who did a fine nip-and-tuck job on Stendhal's The Charterhouse of Parma in 1999) has streamlined and simplified to wonderful effect. The result is a new and improved version of an indestructible classic, which also restores the original artwork to full color. "Trying to be witty," we're told at one point, "leads to lying, more or less." But Saint-Exupéry's drawings offer a handy rebuttal: they're fresh, funny, and like the book itself, rigorously truthful. --James Marcus.
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ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY, the "Winged Poet," was born in Lyon, France, in 1900. A pilot at twenty-six, he was a pioneer of commercial aviation and flew in the Spanish Civil War and World War II. His writings include The Little Prince, Wind, Sand and Stars, Night Flight, Southern Mail, and Airman's Odyssey. In 1944, while flying a reconnaissance mission for his French air squadron, he disappeared over the Mediterranean.
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- Publisher : Clarion Books; First Edition (May 15, 2000)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 96 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0156012197
- ISBN-13 : 978-0156012195
- Reading age : 7+ years, from customers
- Lexile measure : 710L
- Grade level : 4 - 6
- Item Weight : 6.4 ounces
- Dimensions : 8 x 5 x 0.31 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,761 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY, the "Winged Poet," was born in Lyon, France, in 1900. A pilot at twenty-six, he was a pioneer of commercial aviation and flew in the Spanish Civil War and World War II. His writings include The Little Prince, Wind, Sand and Stars, Night Flight, Southern Mail, and Airman's Odyssey. In 1944, while flying a reconnaissance mission for his French air squadron, he disappeared over the Mediterranean.
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I can see why some have read this multiple times, as I am sure each read brings out new thoughts and feelings. For me the book can be summed in the cliche, "stop and smell the roses". While there is so much more to it, the essence is simple.
I won't be able to look up in the night sky and see all the stars without smiling and thinking which one belongs to the little prince.
As a classic I can't help but give it five stars, and will commit to reading it at least twice a year from now on.
I don’t think you can read it too many times, nor can you give it to too many people.
Sadly, one of the people I gifted it to didn’t appreciate it, and he didn’t read it, but the other person adored it properly.
This is a story about a young prince of his own planet/astronaut who owns a rose, and after leaving his planet he meets some other planet rulers who have character flaws, then he gets to earth, and learns some lessons, and imparts some wisdom on those who he meets. Including what it means to be a friend, what makes his rose special amongst other roses, how to appreciate someone despite their absence and dealing with grief.
This book is a beautiful thing filled with such important lessons. It’s lovely, sad, brilliant, beautiful. I couldn’t love it more.
So this is what I got for my coworker who had book themed baby shower.
Hope her and her baby will like it too.
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