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EL PRINCIPITO (Spanish Edition)

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Saint-Exupéry, aviador además de escritor. imaginó un aterrizaje forzoso en el desierto de Sahara. Allí aparece un curioso niño que se siente feliz en medio de la soledad. Este pequeño príncipe, el único habitante de un diminuto planeta, ha llegado desde muy lejos. El niño esta enamorado de una rosa que, engreída de su belleza, se cree única en el mundo.
El príncipe recorre varios planetas y en cada uno conoce diferentes tipos de personas: un vanidoso, un anciano... Finalmente, en la Tierra encuentra un jardín lleno de rosas, que lo hace sentirse desgraciado. Su rosa, entonces, ¿no era única?...
Junto a lo maravilloso, en El Principito —un clásico de la literatura para todas las edades— se revela la delicada relación que crean la amistad y el amor, y se nos muestra el poder de la verdadera sabiduría, esa que nace de lo más simple, de lo que se observa desde el corazón.

Saint-Exupéry, aviador además de escritor. imaginó un aterrizaje forzoso en el desierto de Sahara. Allí aparece un curioso niño que se siente feliz en medio de la soledad. Este pequeño príncipe, el único habitante de un diminuto planeta, ha llegado desde muy lejos. El niño esta enamorado de una rosa que, engreída de su belleza, se cree única en el mundo.
El príncipe recorre varios planetas y en cada uno conoce diferentes tipos de personas: un vanidoso, un anciano... Finalmente, en la Tierra encuentra un jardín lleno de rosas, que lo hace sentirse desgraciado. Su rosa, entonces, ¿no era única?...
Junto a lo maravilloso, en El Principito —un clásico de la literatura para todas las edades— se revela la delicada relación que crean la amistad y el amor, y se nos muestra el poder de la verdadera sabiduría, esa que nace de lo más simple, de lo que se observa desde el corazón.

The Little Prince

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Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike as The Little Prince. Richard Howard's new translation of the beloved classic-published to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's birth-beautifully reflects Saint-Exupéry's unique and gifted style. Howard, an acclaimed poet and one of the preeminent translators of our time, has excelled in bringing the English text as close as possible to the French, in language, style, and most important, spirit. The artwork in this new edition has been restored to match in detail and in color Saint-Exupéry's original artwork. By combining the new translation with restored original art, Harcourt is proud to introduce the definitive English-language edition of

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry first published The Little Prince in 1943, only a year before his Lockheed P-38 vanished over the Mediterranean during a reconnaissance mission. More than a half century later, this fable of love and loneliness has lost none of its power. The 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, well, prince, who asks him to draw a sheep. "In the face of an overpowering mystery, you don't dare disobey," the narrator recalls. "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.

The Little Prince describes his journey from planet to planet, each tiny world populated by a single adult. It's a wonderfully inventive sequence, which evokes not only the great fairy tales but also such monuments of postmodern whimsy as Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. And despite his tone of gentle bemusement, Saint-Exupéry pulls off some fine satiric touches, too. There's the king, for example, who commands the Little Prince to function as a one-man (or one-boy) judiciary:

I have good reason to believe that there is an old rat living somewhere on my planet. I hear him at night. You could judge that old rat. From time to time you will condemn him to death. That way his life will depend on your justice. But you'll pardon him each time for economy's sake. There's only one rat.
The author pokes similar fun at a businessman, a geographer, and a lamplighter, all of whom signify some futile aspect of adult existence. Yet his tale is ultimately a tender one--a heartfelt exposition of sadness and solitude, which never turns into Peter Pan-style treacle. Such delicacy of tone can present real headaches for a translator, and in her 1943 translation, Katherine Woods sometimes wandered off the mark, giving the text a slightly wooden or didactic accent. Happily, Richard Howard (who did a fine nip-and-tuck job on Stendhal's The Charterhouse of Parma in 1999) has streamlined and simplified to wonderful effect. The result is a new and improved version of an indestructible classic, which also restores the original artwork to full color. "Trying to be witty," we're told at one point, "leads to lying, more or less." But Saint-Exupéry's drawings offer a handy rebuttal: they're fresh, funny, and like the book itself, rigorously truthful. --James Marcus
Wind, Sand and Stars

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Recipient of the Grand Prix of the Académie Française, Wind, Sand and Stars captures the grandeur, danger, and isolation of flight. Its exciting account of air adventure, combined with lyrical prose and the spirit of a philosopher, makes it one of the most popular works ever written about flying. Translated by Lewis Galantière.

Le Petit Prince: Avec Des Aquarelles de L'Auteur (Folio Junior) (French Edition)

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Imaginez-vous perdu dans le d??sert, loin de tout lieu habit??, et face ?? un petit gar??on tout blond, surgi de nulle part. Si de surcro??t ce petit gar??on vous demande avec insistance de dessiner un mouton, vous voil?? plus qu'??tonn?? ! ?? partir de l??, vous n'aurez plus qu'une seule interrogation : savoir d'o?? vient cet ??trange petit bonhomme et conna??tre son histoire. S'ouvre alors un monde ??trange et po??tique, peupl?? de m??taphores, d??crit ?? travers les paroles d'un "petit prince" qui porte aussi sur notre monde ?? nous un regard tout neuf, empli de na??vet??, de fra??cheur et de gravit??. Tr??s vite, vous d??couvrez d'??tranges plan??tes, peupl??es d'hommes d'affaires, de buveurs, de vaniteux, d'allumeurs de r??verb??res. Cette ??vocation onirique, ?? laquelle participent les aquarelles de l'auteur, a tout d'un parcours initiatique, o?? l'enfant apprendra les richesses essentielles des rapports humains et le secret qui les r??git : "On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." Oeuvre essentielle de la litt??rature, ce livre de Saint-Exup??ry est un ouvrage que l'on aura ?? coeur de raconter ?? son enfant, page apr??s page, histoire aussi de red??couvrir l'enfant que l'on ??tait autrefois, avant de devenir une grande personne
Night Flight

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In this gripping novel, Saint-Exupéry tells about the brave men who piloted night mail planes from Patagonia, Chile, and Paraguay to Argentina in the early days of commercial aviation. Preface by André Gide. Translated by Stuart Gilbert.

A Guide for Grown-ups: Essential Wisdom from the Collected Works of Antoine de Saint-Exupry

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“One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.”
For more than sixty years, this insight from The Little Prince has been quoted in more than 130 languages by fans around the world. Now, for the first time, quotations from the collected works and letters of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry are presented in a charming gift edition. Six chapters--“Happiness,” “Friendship,” “Responsibility,” “Fortitude,” “Love,” and “What Is Essential”--offer inspirational and thought-provoking words about the subjects held most dear by the author. A perfect gift for graduates—or for anyone who wants gentle guidance.

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