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Work detailsThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943)
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» 78 more Favourite Books (9) Best Fantasy Novels (89) BBC Big Read (10) 501 Must-Read Books (29) 1940s (4) Books Read in 2016 (167) Short and Sweet (28) A Novel Cure (27) Five star books (80) Top Five Books of 2015 (521) Books Read in 2008 (13) Magic Realism (115) Books tagged favorites (125) Elevenses (223) Mix Tape 📚 (10) Books Read in 2015 (2,452) Childhood Favorites (223) Books Read in 2018 (3,251) A Boy's Life (9) Ambleside Books (291) Books I've read (27) Read in school (9) All Things France (27) Robin (3) Africa (475) Unread books (887) A very unusual little story chocked full of little moral lessons, not the least of which is to remember to think simply, like a child. A bright and uplifting little science fiction Aesop fables little story. It is worth the few minutes to read. ( ![]() Rereading this to my son, still one of my favorites of all time! The children's book for grown-ups, it is about loss of innocence, about creativity, about relationships, about responsibility, about ties that bind us, about exploration, about the wonders of childhood, about the pointlessness of adulthood, about loneliness, about isolation, about love, about friendship... and so much more. I loved the wonder that this book brought. It wasn't very tethered to reality, and at times I was a little lost in the Little Prince's adventures, but I think that's a strength to this book. Children would appreciate the fantasy aspect of it, as well as the deeper meaning of friendship and love, and forgiving others who make us feel sad. Lovely book that teaches the reader about how growing up is inevitable and being an adult is almost sad because when we become adults we forget to enjoy our lives. The reason I feel the Little Prince grows up is in the scene where he wants to go back the love of his life, the flower that loved him, and the only way to do it was to get bitten by the snake. This I feel is the metaphor of becoming an adult by letting your childhood die in order to move on to bigger things. The narrator still believes the Little Prince is around somewhere and we just have to keep looking, this is just talking about our childhood is still around we just have to pay more attention.
Antoan de sent Egziperi (1900) linijski i ratni pilot, poginuo 1944. kao pilot-izviđač, oboren od nemačkih aviona. Pored niza romana o pilotima ("Južna poštanska služba", "Noćni let", "Zemlja ljudi", "Ratni pilot") napisao roman "Tvrđava", te neobično poetsku knjigu "Mali princ". Egziperi neguje kult razumevanja i duboke moralnosti, razvijajući vanvremensku veru u moć preobražavanja čoveka i dosezanja do pravog saznavanja njegove prirode. Mali princ je knjiga za male i velike, napisana poput bajke ona otkriva utopijski svet kroz priču o dečaku dospelom sa udaljene i sićušne planete i njegovom traganju za odanošću i ljubavlju. Ovo je knjiga i o stvarnom svetu, o čoveku, njegovim zabludama i grehovima, o nevinosti u otkrivanju najdubljih i najdragocenijih vrednosti postojanja, koja svojom sugestivnšću i poetskom toplinom osvaja decenijama generacije mladih i odraslih čitalaca. "Il Piccolo Principe" è una di quelle letture che entrano nell'animo del lettore. Antoine de Saint- Exupéry con il suo stile semplice e poetico mette il lettore davanti ad una riflessione sul senso vero della vita e sull'importanza di coltivare i sentimenti. Una fiaba senza età e per ogni età, da leggere e rileggere. Vi segnaliamo la pagina del blog di Liberrima in cui parliamo del racconto dello scrittore francese: http://www.librerialiberrima.blogspot... Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, most metaphysical of aviators, has written a fairy tale for grownups. The symbolism is delicate and tenuous. It challenges man the adult, and deplores the loss of the child in man. "The Little Prince" is a parable for grown people in the guise of a simple story for children-a fable with delightful delicate pictures of the little Prince on his adventurings. It is a lovely story in itself hich covers a poetic, yearning philosophy- not the sort of fable that can be tacked down neatly at its four corners but rather reflections on what are real matters of consequence. Is contained inThe Antoine De Saint-Exupery Collection by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Gesamtausgabe: Gesammelte Schriften in drei Bänden: Band 1 Südkurier, Nachtflug, Wind, Sand und Sterne, Flug nach Arras, Der Kleine Prinz, Band 2Die Stadt in der Wüste, Band 3 Kleinere Schriften und Briefe by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The Little Prince / Letter to a Hostage by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Night Flight, The Little Prince, Southern Mail by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The Little Prince and Other Stories (Wordsworth Library Collection) by Wordsworth Editions Fluturim naten, Toka e njerzve, Princi i Vogel by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Has the (non-series) sequelHas the adaptation
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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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An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a little prince from a small planet who relates his adventures in seeking the secret of what is important in life.
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