Le Petit Prince
*Le Petit Prince* is a 1943 novella by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, written in French and usually translated as *The Little Prince*.
A pilot stranded in the desert meets a young prince from a tiny asteroid who recounts his travels through the universe.
The book explores loneliness, love, and the wisdom children possess that adults forget: What is essential is invisible to the eye.
It ranks among the most translated and bestselling books ever published.
- foxCunning wild canine
- roseStood up, or fragrant bloom
- asteroidSun-orbiting rocky mass
- desertTo leave behind completely
- snakeLimbless scaled reptile
golden wheat · boa constrictor · pilot · stars · baobab · sheep · drawing · sunset · taming · friendship · innocence · grown-ups · essential · invisible · heart · aviator · Sahara · water well
- children's booksfairy tales, nursery rhymes, picture books, bedtime stories, Harry Potter
Le Petit PrinceFinnegans Wake
Ulysses · Infinite Jest · The Waste Land · Naked Lunch · American Psycho
Le Petit PrinceThe Stranger
Unknown arriving person
1984 · American Psycho · A Clockwork Orange · The Road · Lord of the Flies
Le Petit PrinceUlysses
Greek hero, Latinized
War and Peace · Infinite Jest · Les Misérables · The Brothers Karamazov · Middlemarch
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