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Title: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Richard Howard ISBN: 0-15-601219-7 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 15 May, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.55 (333 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Likely the Most Beautiful Book Ever Written
Comment: This is, almost without a doubt, the finest book I have ever read. I am an avid reader, and am studying to become an English professor. There is something to be said for the brevity of this book. There are thousands of other books that punch around in the dark for hundreds of pages, never equaling the sheer mass and grandure of this bold-fonted, well-illustrated novella. It clocks in at just over 90 pages, and manages to sum of some of the most important life wisdom that has ever been put into print. Exupery's other efforts fall dramatically short of this work, but one can hardly let that disassemble his status as a man of not only literary, but of honest human brilliance. For me, this book is what it is to be a man. To be a person. I don't have any real heros from a perspective beyond skill in the artistic world, except perhaps The Little Prince.
I remember my 6th grade teacher calling me stupid for reading this book in class. That it was a children's book, and what happened to me reading all those NOVELS. I don't expect everyone to understand this book. I think it is truly an individual experience, and as a result, some will find it uncomfortable. Be that as it may, I urge anyone to read this book, of any age over 13. I urge you to read it five years later. And again, and again. You will watch yourself grow.
This is probably the most stunningly beautiful thing I have ever read. Its beauty is immense and often overpowering. It's like standing at the foot of the reddest sunset, a giant glowing ball towering thousands of feet above you as you crane your neck to see how far it goes. Yes, despite how much I hate a metaphor involving a sunset, it's that good.
I've read the new translation, and it's lacking. It's been dumbed-down. My personal copy is from Harcourt Brace & Company, copywrite 1943 and again in 1971. This, trust me, is the one you want. It will most likely be in hardcover, with a library binding, possibly. It is available used, and will cost you half of what the new and inferior paperback will. Trust me, it IS an important destinction. Otherwise I wouldn't mention it.
Anyway, thanks for reading. Enjoy.
Rating: 5
Summary: A children's book? No. And adult book for children too.
Comment: I read this book for the first time when I was about 30 years. I thought it was cute in the beginning. Toward the middle I thought it was clever and touching. At the end I was rocked to the core.
Like most masterpieces, you won't be able to say why you like it or love it, if you do. And you won't be able to explain why a book, written in French, seems to flow fine in just about any language.
Each time I read it now, I get some little detail or some magic thought that I missed the last time and all the time before. But I can't tell you why I like it so much. Or why all the people I have given it to have fallen in love with it.
I DO know that anyone who does not like this book is probably someone I do not want to know.
By all means read the many reviews here. You will find a hundred reasons why other people fell in love with the Prince and his story. And you will also meet adults who are in too much a hurry to enjoy anything that is really important, adults who are more interested in facts than what the facts mean and who care more about money, power and prestige than love, friendship and simple beauty.
I suspect that such people are the ones who who wrote the few negative reviews here. Perhaps other people who did not like the book read it at the wrong time, under the wrong conditions.
Rating: 2
Summary: The Little Prince...I Don't really like it.
Comment: This books is just not my type of book. I did not really get anything from this book because I have to go over the metaphors before I can understand it. Anyways, this book tells the grown ups all over the world that they can still use their imaginations even though they have matured and have a job. This is some connections I heard from Einstein. Einstein said that Imaginations are more important than knowledge because Imagination creates knowledge. This book made me read it even though I wasn't very interested to it because it makes me think deeply of some words that are hard to understand and while I read the book, it reminded me of my childhood because I use to use my imaginations, ofcourse, probably all the kids use their imaginations. Now that I have grown, I forgot about imagining because I've grown up a lot. Just like in the book, when the little prince was growing up, he is losing his imaginations.
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Title: Le Petit Prince (French Language Edition) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ISBN: 0156013983 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: A Guide for Grown-ups: Essential Wisdom from the Collected Works of Antoine de Saint-Exup¿ry by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ISBN: 0152167110 Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine De Saint-Exupery, Lewis Galantiere ISBN: 0151970874 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 15 October, 1992 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Little Prince 2004 Wall Calendar by Jeu d'Aujourd'hui ISBN: 0789309378 Publisher: Universe Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.99 |
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Title: The Tale of the Rose : The Love Story Behind The Little Prince by Consuelo de Saint-Exupery ISBN: 0812967178 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: 14 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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