The author was an author and a
pilot and died in 1944 when his plane crashed, approximately a year after he wrote The Little
Prince. He was an aristocrat (Greek word meaning: the prevalence of the excellent), brought up with the ideals and the way of life that has nothing in common with today’s values and ambitions. Being a romantic idealist and a lover of justice and worthiness he found himself unable to conform to the life conditions of his time. Disgusted by the corruption of society, he wrote The Little Prince as a parable, where the faults of society are presented and judged as seen through the eyes of an innocent child. The
travels of the little prince speak of his attempt to save his beloved rose from the bad seeds. He travels from
planet to planet meeting the inhabitants, until finally he reaches our planet and as the story goes he meets a pilot who made a forced landing in the Sahara desert where out of the blue, he met a little prince, who told him many stories of his travels from planet to planet. As the pilot was a
grown up ex-little prince was in a position to appreciate the boy’s tales of his adventures. And then the little prince left as abruptly as he came, abandoning our planet to return to his own world. His death however did not cause grief or despair, only sadness and the realization of the existence of a better brighter place, a little planet perhaps, a home, for the little prince and for all of us in the end. This books has a vast circulation being a
fairy tale for grown ups. The sketches in this book were drawn by the author and they add with their sweet and delightful simplicity to the story.
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