{"product_id":"the-little-prince-and-letter-to-a-hostage","title":"Antoine de Saint-Exupery: The Little Prince [2021] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAntoine de Saint-Exupery's timeless tale, reissued in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Antoine de Saint-Exupery first published \u003ci\u003eThe Little Prince\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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":"De Saint-Exupery, Antoine \u0026 Cuffe, T V F","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46544179298643,"sku":"9780241508664","price":19.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/de-saint-exupery-antoine-cuffe-t-v-f-the-little-prince-and-letter-to-a-hostage-9780241508664-50497005060435.jpg?v=1682366732","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/the-little-prince-and-letter-to-a-hostage","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}