The Little Prince

Antoine De Saint-exupéry 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.