Author: Saint-Exupery, Antoine de
Title: Le Petit Prince, avec des aquarelles de l'auteur
Description: Heinemann, London, 1962. Reprint, Hardcover (Printed Boards), Illustrated by: Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Introduction and Life of Saint-Exupery in English with, notes and vocabulary in French and English. French text edition of The Little Prince, a poetic tale self-illustrated in watercolours in which a pilot stranded in the desert meets a young prince fallen to Earth from a tiny asteroid. "His most popular work, The Little Prince was partially based upon a crash he and his navigator survived in the Libyan desert. They were stranded and dehydrated for four days, nearing death when they miraculously stumbled upon a Bedouin who gave them water. The Little Prince is a philosophical story, including societal criticism, remarking on the strangeness of the adult world. One biographer wrote of Saint-Exupery's most famous work: "Rarely have an author and a character been so intimately bound together as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and his Little Prince," and remarking of their dual fates, "the two remain tangled together, twin innocents who fell from the sky." Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 105 pages. Text is in French. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Black titles spine. illustrated by colour drawings. Illustrator: Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction; Novella; Children; Philosophy; France; French Language; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 4745.

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