About the book
A pilot whose plane crashes in the Sahara, far from civilization, narrates the novella Antoine de Saint-Exupéry both wrote and illustrated. While he works to repair the plane before his water runs out, a young boy appears and asks him to draw a sheep. Over the following days the boy, the little prince, tells of his home on a tiny asteroid, the rose he cared for there, and the planets he visited after leaving. Though styled as a children's book, it observes adults and human nature and takes up loneliness, friendship, love and loss. It has sold an estimated 140 million copies and is the second most translated work ever, after the Bible.
Ryan Holiday read it for the first time in 2015 and included it among the best books he read that year, calling it short but great.
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Ryan Holiday (Founder/Brass Check)
Equally allegorical, I read The Little Prince for the first time which for some reason I’d never been exposed to before. If you’re in the same boat, read it. It’s short but great.
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