‘The Little Prince’ is a classic children’s story written and illustrated by the French author and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery. It was written during the Second World War, when Saint-Exupery was living in the United States, and was first published in 1943. The book has been translated into 250 different languages and dialects, and has sold more than 80 million copies.
At first a pilot meets a young prince visiting Earth from a tiny asteroid. The prince speaks about life on the asteroid. He describes spending his earlier days cleaning the volcanoes and weeding unwanted seeds that infest his planet’s soil.
In the end the prince is bitten by a snake. The story ends with a drawing of the landscape where the prince and the narrator met, and where the snake took the prince’s corporeal life.
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