{"product_id":"9780241508664","title":"The Little Prince : And Letter to a Hostage","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Antoine de Saint-Exupery\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eClassic fiction (pre c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 2 December 2021 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Penguin Clothbound Classics' series.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003eHardback | 160 pages\u003cbr\u003e135 x 205 x 19mm | 260g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAntoine de Saint-Exupéry's timeless tale, reissued in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Antoine de Saint-Exupéry first published The Little Prince in 1943, only a year before his plane vanished over the Mediterranean during a reconnaissance mission. Nearly eighty years later, this fable of love and loneliness has lost none of its power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antoine de Saint-Exupery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57390611956037,"sku":"9780241508664","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/3721\/6069\/files\/9780241508664_f0769552-56cf-44b0-b713-fff0952864da.jpg?v=1773740024","url":"https:\/\/stripyduckbookshopcafe.co.uk\/products\/9780241508664","provider":"The Stripy Duck Bookshop Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}