Antoine de SaintExuprys timeless tale reissued in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie BickfordSmith. Antoine de SaintExupry 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 dont 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 narrators imagination in all sorts of surprising childlike directions.