The Little Prince

The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupery was a pilot and writer who never felt content on the ground. But one forced landing proved to be quite fortunate. Attempting to set a flying record between paris and Saigon, he crashed in the Libyan desert, where he almost died of thirst.
Years later, the experience formed the basis for his 1943 children's book, The Little Prince. The allegorical tale, concerning a downed airman who meets a royal juvenile from Asteroid B-612, was aimed at adults as well as their offspring.
As he recounts his interplanetary voyage, the prince depicts most of the grown-ups he encounters as avaricious, self-obsorbed, and unimaginative. By contract, the prince himself - an eternal child - is full of goodwill, spontaneity, and simple wisdom.