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A beautiful fully illustrated gift edition of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry´s delightful story.

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´The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.´

Part of the Macmillan Collector´s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features a specially commissioned translation by Ros and Chloe Schwarz, as well as the charming original black and white illustrations by Saint-Exupéry himself.

After crash-landing in the Sahara Desert, a pilot encounters a little prince who is visiting Earth from his own planet. Their strange and moving meeting illuminates for the aviator many of life´s universal truths, as he comes to learn what it means to be human from a child who is not. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry´s delightful The Little Prince has been translated into over 180 languages and sold over 80 million copies.

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Ever since its original publication in French in 1943, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry´s story has enchanted audiences of all ages . . . The story´s wisdom on loneliness - in cities crowded with people - and consumerism - in a world replete with natural joys - remains as resonant as ever Samuel Earle The Guardian

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Antoine De Saint Exupéry, born in Lyon 29 June 1900, was a French writer and aviator. He is best remembered for his novella The Little Prince, and for his books about aviation adventures, including Night Flight (1931) and Wind, Sand and Stars (1939). In 1921 he began his military service and trained as a pilot. He became one of the pioneers of international postal flight. At the outbreak of the Second World War he joined the French Air Force flying reconnaissance missions until the armistice with Germany. Following a spell writing in the United States, he joined the Free French Forces. He went on a mission to collect information on German troop movements in the Rhone valley on 31 July 1944 and was never seen again. His plane disappeared. It was assumed that he was shot down over the Mediterranean. An unidentifiable body wearing French colours was found several days later and buried in Carqueiranne that September.

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