{"product_id":"the-little-prince-and-letter-to-a-hostage-9780241508664","title":"The Little Prince : And Letter to a Hostage","description":"\u003cp\u003eAntoine de Saint-Exupéry's timeless tale, reissued in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry first published The Little Prince in 1943, only a year before his plane vanished over the Mediterranean during a reconnaissance mission. Nearly eighty years 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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePenguin Clothbound Classics are bound in cloth and not paper. The design is stamped on in foil, and each cover repeats one small icon taken from the story. The series was designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith, who took her inspiration from Victorian bookbinding. Each book has coloured endpapers and a ribbon bookmark. They make beautiful presents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe foil can rub off if the books are stacked tightly, so give them a little room on the shelf.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Antoine de Saint-Exupery\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eClassic fiction (pre c 1945), Fantasy, Fiction in translation\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 2 Dec 2021 by Penguin Books Ltd.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"de Saint-Exupery, Antoine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55718494503290,"sku":"9780241508664","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0373\/4125\/files\/9780241508664_740bb3f4-3f78-43d4-82be-a5818f70f9c7.jpg?v=1755002287","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.co.uk\/ro\/products\/the-little-prince-and-letter-to-a-hostage-9780241508664","provider":"Belfast Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}