Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's multi-million copy bestseller in a new Picador Classic edition, translated by Ros Schwartz, with an introduction by Kate Mosse.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, born in Lyon in 1900, was a French writer and aviator. He is best remembered for The Little Prince, and for his books about aviation adventures. In 1921 he began his military service and trained as a pilot, going on to become one of the pioneers of international postal flight. At the outbreak of the Second World War he joined the French Air Force flying reconnaissance missions until the armistice with Germany. Following a spell writing in the United States, he joined the Free French Forces. Then on 31 July 1944, he went on a mission to collect information on German troop movements in the Rhone valley and was never seen again. It was assumed that he was shot down over the Mediterranean.
The Little Prince moves from asteroid to desert, from fable and
comedy to enigmatic tragedy, in order to make one recurrent point:
You can't love roses. You can only love a rose
*New Yorker*
Ros Schwartz's translation is beautifully judged
*Financial Times*
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