He was 44 years old when he perished - a biographical detail that lends eerie poignancy to the fact that, perched atop his little planet, the Little Prince watched the sun set exactly 44 times. On July 31, 1944, he left on a reconnaissance mission, never to return. He was eight years over the age limit for pilots in such squadrons, so he petitioned relentlessly for exemption until it was finally granted by General Dwight Eisenhower. In April of 1943, shortly after the book came out, 43-year-old Saint-Exupéry shoved his Little Prince manuscripts and drawings in a brown paper bag, handing it to his friend Silvia Hamilton - “I’d like to give you something splendid,” he told her, “but this is all I have.” - and departed for Algiers as a military pilot with the Free French Air Force. But what few realize is that Saint-Exupéry, a commercial pilot who never mastered English and penned his masterwork in French, wrote The Little Prince ( public library) not in Paris but in New York City and Long Island, where he arrived in 1940 after the Nazi invasion of France. © 2017 Calygram (Luisterboek): 4250928332455Although Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (June 29, 1900–July 31, 1944) only wrote one children’s book in his lifetime, it is among the most beloved of all time, one of those rare gems with most timeless philosophy for grown-ups.
Translated into 300 languages and dialects (as well as Braille), selling nearly two million copies annually with sales totaling over 140 million copies worldwide, it has become one of the best-selling books ever published. The Little Prince is one of the most-translated books in the world and was voted the best book of the 20th century in France. Get ready for a trip to see the world differently and learn what is really important. "Children should show great understanding towards grown-ups". While it looks like a children's book, it targets adult relationships with deep thoughts on how adults perceive life and each other. The story is philosophical and includes social criticism, remarking on the strangeness of the adult world. It is a poetic tale, in which a pilot strands in the desert and meets a young prince fallen to Earth from a tiny asteroid. The Little Prince was published in 1943 by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
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