{"product_id":"the-little-prince-and-letter-to-a-hostage-penguin-clothbound-classics","title":"The Little Prince: And Letter to a Hostage (Penguin Clothbound Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAntoine De Saint-Exupery\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAntoine de Saint-Exupéry's timeless tale, reissued in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAntoine de Saint-Exupéry first published \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Little Prince\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003ein 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\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nekoto Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":52517189976338,"sku":null,"price":31.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0868\/7072\/0786\/files\/IMG-6407.webp?v=1784063418","url":"https:\/\/nekotobooks.com\/products\/the-little-prince-and-letter-to-a-hostage-penguin-clothbound-classics","provider":"Nekoto Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}