The Little Prince is philosophical tale, with humanist values, shared from one generation to another for more than 75 years.

The Little Prince fable and modern classic that was published with his own illustrations in French as Le Petit Prince in 1943.

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The narrator, an airplane pilot, crashes in the Sahara desert.

The narrator, who calls the child the little prince, learns that the boy comes from a very small planet, which the narrator believes to be asteroid B-612.

One day an anthropomorphic rose grows on the planet, and the prince loves her with all his heart. Her vanity and demands become too much for the prince, and he leaves.

At last he travels to Earth, where he meets a snake, who says that he can return him to his home, and a flower, who tells him that people lack roots.

The narrator and little prince have now spent eight days in the desert and have run out of water.

The little prince tells the narrator that he plans to return to his planet and flower and that now the stars will be meaningful to the narrator, because he will know that his friend is living on one of them.

The story resumes six years later. The narrator says that the prince’s body was missing in the morning, so he knows that he returned to his planet, and he wonders whether the sheep that he drew him ate his flower.

The Little Prince draws unflattering portraits of grown-ups as being hopelessly narrow-minded.

In contrast, children come to wisdom through open-mindedness and a willingness to explore the world around them and within themselves.

The main theme of the fable is expressed in the secret that the fox tells the little prince: “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly: what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

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