Review of The Little Prince

The Little Prince 

by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, New York, 1943       93 pages

If you have not met the Little Prince then I promise a treat. And if you have indeed met him, I promise a treat anyway. This little classic is full of strange and revealing vignettes that teach humility and a childlike innocence. A child may enjoy The Little Prince, but an adult will admire it. It is a cunning voyage onto planets small and big. It will leave you bereft and warmly still.

Here is a sample from a chapter in which the little prince gets angry: "The flowers have been growing thorns for millions of years. For millions of years the sheep have been eating them just the same. . . Is this not of more consequence than a fat red-faced gentleman’s sums? (a man counting the stars) . . . And I know—myself—one flower which is unique in the world, which grows nowhere but on my planet, but which one little sheep can destroy in a single bite some morning, without ever noticing what he is doing—Oh! You think that is not important!"  (p. 32)

-- review submitted by Wesley L.

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