{"product_id":"the-little-prince-and-letter-to-a-hostage","title":"The Little Prince : And Letter to a Hostage","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAntoine de Saint-Exupéry's timeless tale, reissued in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry first published The Little Prince 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.\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Hardcover \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublished:  UK, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Penguin Books\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePages: 160\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eLanguage: English  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9780241508664\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Antoine de Saint-Exupery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57164806816075,"sku":null,"price":19.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/8755\/1819\/files\/9780241508664.jpg?v=1777563375","url":"https:\/\/desirelinesbookstore.com\/products\/the-little-prince-and-letter-to-a-hostage","provider":"desirelines books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}