The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupry first published The Little Prince in 1943 only a year before his Lockheed P-38 vanished over the Mediterranean during a reconnaissance mission. More than a half century 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 well prince who asks him to draw a sheep. In the face of an overpowering mystery you don''t 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 narrator''s imagination in all sorts of surprising childlike directions.