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The Little Prince

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The Little Prince

by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Translated by: Richard Howard

June 1, 2000 | Trade Paperback

Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike as The Little Prince. Richard Howard''s new translation of the beloved classic-published to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Antoine de Saint-Exupry''s birth-beautifully reflects Saint-Exupry''s unique and gifted style. Howard, an acclaimed poet and one of the preeminent translators of our time, has excelled in bringing the English text as close as possible to the French, in language, style, and most important, spirit. The artwork in this new edition has been restored to match in detail and in color Saint-Exupry''s original artwork. By combining the new translation with restored original art, Harcourt is proud to introduce the definitive English-language edition of

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    Rating: 3/5

    A New Perspective

    Alyssa Later

    6 weeks ago

    Many of us have read this book in grade school but forget the lessons taught in this book. The way we view things can vary greatly from the original intention. How we approach different viewpoints and problem solving is also brought out in the book. This book shows us how greatly different a child's thoughts are different from an adult's thoughts. An adult's thinking may be at times hard to understand because there is no logic to it, it just keeps going around in circles, so to say. Many people around the world have enjoyed this book, for it has been translated into other languages. Although being a children's book, it is so thought provoking that any person at any age can enjoy it.

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    Rating: 5/5

    Holds such an Important Message

    Margaret Majewski

    5 months ago

    I absolutely loved the meaning within this book. Viewing the world through the eyes of a child is so easily forgotten as one grows older, but this book reminds us of the importance of it all. I recommend this book to everyone at any age, but mostly to elementary school teachers!

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    Rating: 4/5

    Love the illustrations!

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    4 years ago

    An important book for both children and adults alike, with different beauty and meaning every time you read it.

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    The Little Prince

    Carrie

    13 years ago

    A sad, poignant tale with beautifully simple illustrations, The Little
    Prince is an easy read. It carries an "innocence lost" tone in which
    the adult narrator reflects on the innocence of a young prince who
    lives on an asteroid. The story told by the little prince of the people he meets could be the same for everyone, but it is his reaction to and attitude towards these people that gives him his innocence. This is a book I have read many times over. I recommend reading it in the original French.

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The mysteries of this sweet and searching book continue to amaze, nearly 60 years since its original publication by the equally mysterious pilot/inventor/author/illustrator, Antoine de Saint-Exupery -- his career ended in 1944 when his reconnaissance aircraft disappeared over the Mediterranean, pursued by a German fighter plane. For those of us who first read the fable in French, the translation may bring up more questions than it answers about the elliptical text, but the experience of re-reading it is immensely satisfying nonetheless. One of the most delightful aspects of this new translation is the addition of the restored original artwork, simple yet evocative sketches and watercolour paintings of a soulful little boy with big, curious eyes and tousled blond hair, and wonderful thumbnail drawings that punctuate the text on almost every page.

The narrator his unlikely tale with an explanation of his failed career as an artist because adults failed to see the meaning in his sketch of an elephant inside a boa constrictor. We meet him again in the middle of a desert with an airplane engine in disrepair and only eight days' water supply. It is in this unlikely place that he first meets the Little Prince, who asks him to draw a sheep. From this unusual beginning, readers are drawn into a fantastic tale of the Little Prince's allegorical campaign against encroaching baobab trees, his journey among the stars and the mostly unpleasant people he meets there -- adults with little imagination and badly skewed values. This life-affirming secret -- what is truly important -- is revealed in the Little Prince's relationships with the single rose on his own planet and a little fox he meets here on Earth ... and also with our narrator. He tames them, makes friends with them and therefore becomes responsible for them, and that invisible sense of responsibility, of love, is what matters most. The story rings with a sad and yet oh so hopeful and inspiring and sustained note -- each new reading reveals new meaning.

From the Publisher

Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike as The Little Prince. Richard Howard''s new translation of the beloved classic-published to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Antoine de Saint-Exupry''s birth-beautifully reflects Saint-Exupry''s unique and gifted style. Howard, an acclaimed poet and one of the preeminent translators of our time, has excelled in bringing the English text as close as possible to the French, in language, style, and most important, spirit. The artwork in this new edition has been restored to match in detail and in color Saint-Exupry''s original artwork. By combining the new translation with restored original art, Harcourt is proud to introduce the definitive English-language edition of

About the Author

Richard Howard is the author of eleven books of poetry, including Untitled Subjects, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1970. He received the American Book Award for his translation of Baudelaire''s Les Fleurs du Mal. He lives in New York City.

ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY (1900-1944) was born in Lyons, France. He took his first flight at the age of eleven, and became a pilot at twenty-six. His writings include The Little Prince, Southern Mail, and Night Flight. In 1944, while serving with his French air squadron, he disappeared during a flight over the Mediterranean. 

Trade Paperback

96 Pages, 5.2 x 7.9 x 0.3 in

June 1, 2000

English


0156012197
9780156012195

From the Critics

Young Osment (The Sixth Sense; Pay It Forward) again proves his mettle as an actor, giving voice to the Little Prince in this crisp, full-cast production of the literary classic. He approaches the role with a gentleness and sensitivity that touches the heart and never sounds maudlin. As the pilot whose plane has crashed in the Sahara, Gere plays it low-key, creating a perfect partner for Osment''s interplanetary-traveling, wise-beyond-his-years prince. Gere expresses just the right mix of amusement and bewilderment as the prince interrupts the pilot''s efforts to repair his plane with a request that he draw a sheep. The adept performances capture the timeless nature of Saint-Exup,ry''s fable about how a child sees the important things in life much more clearly than many adults do. All ages.

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