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A n t o i n e d e S a i n t - E x u p ér y
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SAINT-EXUPÉRY, Antoine de
(1900-44). An adventurous pilot
and a lyrical poet, Antoine de
Saint-Exupéry conveyed in his
books the solitude and mystic
grandeur of the early days of
flight. He described dangerous
adventures in the skies and also
wrote the whimsical children's
fable 'The Little Prince'.
Antoine-Marie-Roger de
Saint-Exupéry was born on June
29, 1900, in Lyon, France. In
the 1920s he helped establish
airmail routes overseas. During
World War II he flew as a
military reconnaissance pilot.
After the Germans occupied
France in 1940, he escaped to
the United States. He rejoined
the air force in North Africa in
1943. During what was to have
been his final reconnaissance
mission over the Mediterranean
Sea, he died when his plane was shot down on July 31, 1944.
Saint-Exupery's first book, 'Southern Mail', was about the life and death of an airmail pilot.
It was published in French in 1929. Other books include 'Night Flight' (1931), about the first
airline pilots, and 'Wind, Sand, and Stars' (1939), in which he describes his feelings during
flights over the desert.
'The Little Prince' (1943), which in a way is really a children's book for grown-ups, was
written during Saint-Exupery's stay in the United States. A
gentle and thoughtful book, it
tells the story of a boy who lives alone on a tiny planet.
A final volume of reflections, which provides an insight into the author's views on the
meaning of life, is 'The Wisdom of the Sands' (1948). This book was published after the
pilot's death.
-- From Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia
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Chapter 14 the little prince visits the lamplighter ................44
Chapter 15 the little prince visits the geographer ................47
Chapter 16 the narrator discusses the Earth's lamplighters 51
Chapter 18 the little prince goes looking for men and meets a
flower...................................................................55
Chapter 19 the little prince climbs a mountain range..........56
Chapter 19 the little prince climbs a mountain range..........56
Chapter 20 the little prince discovers a garden of roses......58
Chapter 21 the little prince befriends the fox.......................60
Chapter 22 the little prince encounters a railway switchman
.............................................................................66
Chapter 23 the little prince encounters a merchant .............68
Chapter 24 the narrator and the little prince, thirsty, hunt for
a well in the desert...............................................69
Chapter 25 finding a well, the narrator and the little prince
discuss his return to his planet ............................72
Chapter 26 the little prince converses with the snake; the
little prince consoles the narrator; the little prince
returns to his planet.............................................76
Chapter 27 the narrator's afterthoughts...............................84