The Little Prince's Love and Death: A Biography of Saint-Exupéry

Author: Paul Webster
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry would never have imagined that his little book The Little Prince would become the most translated French literary masterpiece. Perhaps when he flew his beloved plane into the sky and disappeared forever, he still felt that love would be as magnificent and mysterious as such a short life. This book is the best biography of Saint-Exupéry, written by Paul Webster, a long-term Paris correspondent for the British Guardian. To write this book, Webster traveled extensively to visit Saint-Exupéry's friends and family before his death, using beautiful and brilliant prose to introduce us to the boy who grew up in a noble castle in Lyon, filled with curiosity and imagination about the world. This Frenchman, who loved flying and writing and persistently pursued the truth of love, is brought to life in this biography. Like The Little Prince, Saint-Exupéry's lifelong is also a perpetual theme that is curious, lingering, and mysterious.