Human Earth

Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Award-winning work from the 1939 Collège de France Literary Prize, "The Little Prince" author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry narrates the explorer's story of a pilot based on his personal experiences. "The Little Prince" author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote this prose novel based on his own personal experiences and observations. It resembles a burst of fireworks, a of flowers, regardless of time and place, gathering the pilot's feelings, emotions, and reflections—explaining from various perspectives the "truth he found among the stars." The book consists of eight chapters, each independent, discussing routes, airplanes, planets, oases, deserts, all centered around the same theme: humanity and its great land. Renowned novelist and Nobel Prize laureate André Gide exclaimed after reading it, "Oh! It far exceeds my wishes, my expectations, my hopes." "I particularly support the extraordinary truth he expounds, which I believe holds crucial psychological significance: human happiness does not lie in freedom, but in taking on an obligation." Poet Paul Valéry remarked, "Saint-Exupéry's works are always a conflict between duty and the sweetness of life." Critic Roger Caillois said in the preface to "The Collected Works of Saint-Exupéry," "Nowadays, bookstores are filled with worthless works; his works can restore people's respect and belief in books."