Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's 1943 illustrated novella — about a pilot stranded in the Sahara who meets a prince from a tiny planet — the most widely translated French-language book and the fourth best-selling book ever published.
Creates the philosophical children's book for adults — The Little Prince reads as a children's story but its themes (the loss of childhood imagination and wonder in adulthood; 'It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye') are the most compressed philosophical wisdom in popular fiction.
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