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    The Little Prince: New Translation by Richard Mathews with Restored Original Art
    The Little Prince: New Translation by Richard Mathews with Restored Original Art
    The Little Prince: New Translation by Richard Mathews with Restored Original Art
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    The Little Prince: New Translation by Richard Mathews with Restored Original Art

    By Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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    “An aviator, downed in the desert and facing long odds of survival, encounters a strange young person,
    neither man nor really boy, who, it emerges over time, has travelled from his solitary home on a distant
    asteroid, where he lives alone with a single rose. The rose has made him so miserable that, in torment,
    he has taken advantage of a flock of birds to convey him to other planets. He is instructed by a wise
    if cautious fox, and by a sinister angel of death, the snake.”—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker
    LanguageEnglish
    Publisherl'Aleph
    Release dateNov 16, 2020
    ISBN9789176378717
    The Little Prince: New Translation by Richard Mathews with Restored Original Art
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupery

    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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      The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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      WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY

      ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉR Y

      T R A N S L A T E D F R O M T H E F R E N C H B Y

      C . R I C H A R D M A T H E W S

      l’Aleph

      Copyright

      Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

      The Little Prince

      Translated by C. Richard Mathews

      Original illustrations by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

      Book design by Marcus Batley

      Published by l’Aleph – Sweden

      www.l-aleph.com

      ISBN 978-91-7637-871-7

      l’Aleph is a Wisehouse Imprint.

      © Wisehouse 2020 – Sweden

      www.wisehouse-publishing.com

      © Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photographing, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      Contents

      Half-Title Page

      Frontispiece

      Title Page

      Copyright

      Contents

      Dedication

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      Dedication

      to leon werth

      I apologize to children for having dedicated this book to a grown-up. I have a serious excuse: this grown-up is the best friend that I have in the world. I have another excuse: this grown-up understands everything, even books for children. I have a third excuse: this person lives in France where he is hungry and cold. He needs to be consoled. If all these excuses aren’t enough, I am willing then to dedicate this book to the child that this grown-up once was. All grown-ups have once been children. (But only a few among them remember that.) So, I am correcting my dedication:

      to leon werth

      WHEN HE WAS A LITTLE BOY

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      hen I was six years old

      , I once saw a wonderful picture in a book about the rain forest which was called True Life Stories. It represented a boa constrictor that was swallowing a wild animal. Here is a copy of the drawing.

      It said in the book: Boa constrictors swallow their prey whole, without chewing. Then they are not able to budge and they sleep during the six months it is being digested.

      I thought a lot then about jungle adventures and, in turn, I succeeded, with a colored pencil, to make my first drawing. My drawing number 1. It was like this:

      I showed my masterwork to some grown-ups and asked them if my drawing made them afraid. They answered me: Why would a hat make us afraid?

      My drawing didn’t represent a hat. It represented a boa constrictor that was digesting an elephant. I then drew the inside of the boa, so that the grown-ups would be able to understand. They still needed explanations. My drawing number 2 was like this:

      The grown-ups advised me to put aside drawings of boas, whether open or closed, and to take an interest instead in geography, in history, in calculus and in grammar. That’s how I abandoned, at the age of six, a magnificent career as a painter. I had been discouraged by the lack of success of my drawing number 1 and of my drawing number 2. Grown-ups never understand anything on their own, and it is tiring, for children, to always be giving them explanations.

      I therefore chose another occupation and I learned to fly airplanes. I flew a little everywhere in the world. And geography, it’s true, served me well. I knew how to recognize, at first glance, China from Arizona. It’s very helpful if you are lost at night.

      I have thus had, during the course of my life, a bunch of contacts with a bunch of serious people. I have lived a lot among grown-ups. And I have seen them up close. That hasn’t improved my opinion of them very much.

      Whenever I would meet one of them who seemed to me to be a little perceptive, I took the opportunity to show him my drawing number 1 that I had always kept. I wanted to know whether he would truly get it. But he always commented: It’s a hat. So then I didn’t speak to him about boa constrictors, or rain forests, or stars. I put myself at his level. I spoke to him of bridge, of golf, of politics and of ties. And the grown-up

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