A year after the books publication in 1943, Saint-Exupery disappeared over the Mediterranean while flying a reconnaissance mission for his French air squadron.

Translated into 300 languages and dialects (as well as Braille), selling nearly two million copies annually with sales totaling over 140 million copies worldwide, it has become one of the best-selling books ever published. Antoine de Saint-Exupery wrote about love for his wife. It is one of the most-translated books in the world and was voted the best book of the 20th century in France. It is often lyrical sometimes profound However it is classified, The Little Prince has entered childrens literature, in the manner of quite a few other such hard-to-define works in the preceding centuries' (Pierpont Morgan Library). You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. The Little Prince has something of Hans Christian Andersen in it, something of Lewis Carroll, and even, it may perhaps be said, a bit of John Bunyan. He is also the author of the much-loved book 'The Little Prince' (translated from 'Le Petit Prince'). He spent his childhood at the castle of Saint-Maurice-de-Remens and had his. His father’s untimely death, plunged the whole family into financial hardship. He is a warrior who looked at adventure and danger with a poet's eyes. He was born into an poor aristocratic family of Count Jean de Saint-Exupery and his wife, Countess Marie de Fonscolombe.

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