The little prince [electronic resource].

ISBN: 9781507198605
ISBN: 1507198604
Physical Description: 1 online resource
Publisher: [United States] : Babelcube Inc., 2017.
Distributor: Made available through hoopla

Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 1900-1944 (Author). hoopla digital. (Added Author).

Summary:

The Little Prince is a work in French language, the most famous by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Published in 1943 in New York simultaneously in English and French, it's a poetic and philosophical tale in the guise of a children's story. It has simple and uncluttered language, because it is intended to be understood by children, and, in fact, for the narrator, it is the preferred vehicle of a symbolic conception of life. Each chapter talks about a meeting of the little prince who leaves him perplexed about the absurd behavior of grown-ups. Each of these meetings can be read as an allegory. The watercolor paintings are part of the text and participate in this purity of language: simplicity and deepness are the key qualities of the work. You can read an invitation from the author to find the child in yourself, because all grown-ups were first children (but few of them remember). The book is dedicated to Léon Werth, but when he was a little boy.