ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born to an aristocratic family as Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry in France in 1900. His father was a Viscount, who died when Antoine was very young. After the death of his younger brother, Antoine had to work hard to take care of his family.
Antoine was not only a poet and writer, but also a military aviator. He worked as a pilot for postal flights, as a negotiator for the downed fliers taken hostage in the Sahara Desert, and as a Free French Air Force pilot during World War II.
His literary work includes L'Aviateur (The Aviator), Courrier Sud (Southern Mail), Vol de Nuit (Night Flight), and Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince). Arguably the most well-known of his works, The Little Prince captures two of the most critical incidents in Antoine's life - his crash in the Sahara Desert, where he went missing for six days, and his relationship with his wife, the beautiful Consuelo Suncin. Banned during his lifetime in France for political reasons, The Little Prince was published posthumously in French.
Antoine died in 1944 after his plane disappeared while he was collecting information on the Germans.
SYNOPSIS
The story of The Little Prince begins after the narrator crashed his airplane in the middle of the Sahara Desert and encountered a little stranger. This stranger is the eponymous little prince. The little prince claims to have come from a small asteroid, which he refers to as his planet.
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