Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's timeless tale， reissued in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith。

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。

The 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。