The Little Prince, written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, was reviewed by Bianca Schulze. In 1944, while flying a reconnaissance mission for his French air squadron, he disappeared over the Mediterranean His writings include The Little Prince, Wind, Sand and Stars, Night Flight, Southern Mail, and Airman’s Odyssey. A pilot at twenty-six, he was a pioneer of commercial aviation and flew in the Spanish Civil War and World War II. Buy the BookĪNTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY, the “Winged Poet,” was born in Lyon, France, in 1900. The Little Prince is a thin book with its mere ninety-eight pages, but don’t be fooled it’s a brilliant book meant to be deeply thought about and to encourage you to build castles in the air. Either way, all readers will have their minds opened wide and will hopefully grow up to be adults that will always remember they were once children, too. What unfolds is a marvelous story that some will deem happy and some will find sad. The pilot obeys this odd request, which strangely enough leads to the pilot learning more about the Little Prince and where he came from. One day a little boy, oddly dressed, shows up out of nowhere and insists that the pilot draw him a sheep.
The story begins on Earth with the narrator-a crashed pilot stranded in the Sahara Desert, who is trying hard to repair his wrecked plane. “All grown-ups were once children… but only a few of them remember it.” On his journey, he discovers the unpredictable nature of adults. The prince is a small boy from a tiny planet (an asteroid to be precise), who travels the universe, planet-to-planet, seeking wisdom. The Little Prince is an honest and beautiful story about loneliness, friendship, sadness, and love. Similarly to the pilot in his story, while flying a mission during World War II, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s plane was shot down, and it disappeared somewhere over the Mediterranean.
The author, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, was a pilot. The Little Prince is a book that has been translated into English from the French language.
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