The Little Prince

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CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Dec 12, 2015 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 106 pages
70th Anniversary Edition - Unabridged with large original illustrations, and additional drawings by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (from "Lettres a l'inconnue"). It contains also a short story (postscript) by Wirton Arvel.

One of the most-translated book in the world
It was voted the best book of the 20th century in France
Translated into more than 250 languages and dialects

A poetic tale of loneliness, friendship, love, and loss,
with watercolour illustrations by the author,
in which a pilot stranded in the desert meets
a young alien prince fallen to Earth from a tiny asteroid

The story, though ostensibly styled as a children's book
is philosophical and includes social criticism,
making several observations about life and human nature
and remarking on the strangeness of the adult world.

Also available as French-English, French-Italian and English-Italian bilingual parallel text editions, and single language editions
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- English-Italian bilingual parallel texts
- French only
- English only, with a short story (postscript) by Wirton Arvel and some additional drawings from "Lettres a l'inconnue"
- Italian only, with a short story (postscript) by Wirton Arvel and some additional drawings from "Lettres a l'inconnue"

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New edition: 29 May 2015 Note: If you purchased this eBook before 29th May 2015, and you would like to receive for free the new edition, revised and with larger illustrations, please send an email to the editorial staff of Kentauron. You can find that email address inside the eBook.

More about The Little Prince "Le petit prince" is one of the most translated books in the world:
(French) Le Petit Prince
(English) The Little Prince
(German) Der Kleine Prinz
(Italian) Il Piccolo Principe
(Spanish) El Principito
(Portuguese) O Principezinho
(Dutch) De Kleine Prins
(Danish) Den lille Prins
(Polish) Maly Ksiaze
(Bulgarian) Malkyat Princ
(Hungarian) A Kis Herceg
(Finnish) Pikku Prinssi
(Swedish) Lille Prinsen
(Japanese) Hoshi no oojisama
(Norwegian) Den Lille Prinsen
(Romanian) Micul Print
and many many others. As of 2014 it has been translated into more than 250 languages and dialects.

Le Petit Prince is often used as a beginner's book for French language students.

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About the author (2015)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1900 - 1944 Antoine de Saint-Exupery was born in Lyon, France on June 29, 1900. Saint-Exupery was educated in Jesuit schools. He later attended a Catholic boarding school in Switzerland before entering the Ecole de Beaux-Arts as an architecture student. de Saint-Exupery began his military service in 1921 and was sent to Strasbourgh to be trained as a pilot. He received his pilot's license in 1922 and, after a few dead end jobs as a bookkeeper and an automobile salesman, he began flying mail for a commercial airline company. His route over North Africa was the basis for his first novel, Southern Mail, in 1929. His second novel, Night Flight, became an international bestseller and was made into a film in 1933. By that time, de Saint-Exupery was married to Consuelo Gomez Castillo and was working as a test pilot for Air France. He was also working as a foreign correspondent covering May Day events in Moscow and writing a series on the Spanish Civil War. His book, Wind, Sand and Stars won the French Academy's 1939 Grand Prix du Roman and the National Book Award in the United States. He came to the United States after France fell in World War II, but rejoined the French Air Force in North Africa in 1943. That same year he published The Little Prince, a children's story of such universal appeal that it has been translated into close to fifty languages. Antoine de Saint-Exupery took off on a flight over Southern France on July 31, 1944 and was never seen again. In 1998, a fisherman found a bracelet with his name and his wife's name engraved on it, 150 kilometers west of Marseilles.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Little Prince
AuthorAntoine De Saint-Exupéry
EditorElizabeth Wright
Translated byWirton Arvel
Illustrated byAntoine De Saint-Exupéry
ContributorWirton Arvel
Editionillustrated
PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015
ISBN1519724985, 9781519724984
Length106 pages
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Juvenile Fiction / Fairy Tales & Folklore / General
Juvenile Fiction / Fantasy & Magic
Juvenile Fiction / Royalty
Juvenile Nonfiction / Philosophy
  
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