The Little Prince

Le Petit Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

A philosophical fable about a stranded pilot and a young prince whose travels reveal lessons about love, loneliness, imagination, and responsibility.

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Published

April 6, 1943

Publisher

Reynal & Hitchcock

Pages

ISBN-13

9780156012195

What this book opens

The Little Prince follows a pilot stranded in the Sahara who meets a young prince from a tiny asteroid. Through the prince’s travels, the book studies love, friendship, loneliness, imagination, and the blindness of grown-ups.

Part children’s tale, part philosophical fable, the book is shaped by Saint-Exupéry’s aviation life, wartime exile, and belief that what matters most is often invisible.

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The book — https://www.lepetitprince.com/en/the-book/
Official overview of the prince, rose, fox, aviator, and Sahara.
The Little Prince — https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Little-Prince
Concise plot, theme, and publication overview.
The Strange Triumph of The Little Prince — https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-strange-triumph-of-the-little-prince
Essay on exile, love, abstraction, and the rose.
The True Events That Inspired The Little Prince — https://time.com/4255854/little-prince-1943-history-2/
Connects the Sahara crash to Saint-Exupéry’s life.
The Beloved Classic Novel The Little Prince Turns 75 Years Old — https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/beloved-classic-novel-little-prince-turns-75-years-old-180968662/
Covers wartime New York origins and manuscript history.
The Little Prince at the Morgan — https://www.themorgan.org/little-prince-morgan
Morgan Library context for original manuscript and drawings.
The Little Prince: Taking Flight — https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/little-prince-taking-flight
Explores watercolors, drafts, exile, and aviation.
The Little Prince: A New York Story — https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/little-prince
Focuses on the book’s New York origins.
The Little Prince Exhibition — https://www.themorgan.org/press/2013/little-prince-exhibition
Useful for manuscript, drawings, and exhibition details.
Interstellar Isolation: Saint-Exupéry’s Drafts for The Little Prince — https://www.themorgan.org/videos/little-prince-virtual-tour
Connects isolation, imagination, and connection.
Making The Little Prince — https://www.themorgan.org/videos/making-little-prince
Explores drafts, artwork, and revisions.
The Little Prince Turns 75: Reflections by Adrian Arturo Peña — https://www.themorgan.org/blog/little-prince-turns-75-reflections-adrian-arturo-pena
Reflection on exile, the flower, and grown-up rules.
The Little Prince’s Last Flight — https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/the-little-prince-antoine-de-saint-exupery
WWII context for Saint-Exupéry’s life and disappearance.
The Courageous, Intransigent Antoine de Saint-Exupéry — https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1994/12/05/lost-in-the-stars
Author-focused piece on aviation and contradictions.
An Unlikely Bestseller: The Little Prince at 75 years — https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/perspective/the-little-prince
Explores the book’s global endurance.
The Little Prince and the Allure of Sadness — https://publicseminar.org/essays/the-little-prince-and-the-allure-of-sadness/
Essay on melancholy, imagination, death, and flight.
The Little Prince – Center for Philosophy and Children — https://websites.umass.edu/cpc/the-little-prince-2/
Philosophical discussion themes for children and adults.
Rare typescript of The Little Prince goes on sale for $1.25 million — https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/rare-typescript-the-little-prince-goes-sale-125-million-2024-10-24/
Covers corrected typescript and draft material.
Rare typescript of The Little Prince to go up for sale — https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/24/rare-typescript-of-the-little-prince-to-go-up-for-sale
Working copy, corrections, sketches, and literary value.
Book of The Little Prince author’s love letters marks end of feud between heirs — https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/may/05/book-of-the-little-prince-authors-love-letters-marks-end-of-feud-between-heirs
Relevant to Consuelo, the rose, and the real love story background.

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