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El libro cuenta la historia de un pequeño piloto que estrella el aeroplano en que viajaba en el desierto de Sahara. Aquí conoce a un pequeño príncipe proveniente de otro planeta, en el cual sólo hay algunos volcanes y crece una flor. El principito le cuenta al piloto, que ha visitado muchos asteroides lejanos intentando aprender cómo cuidar su planeta e impedir que se rompa en pedazos. El viaje del principito no tiene resultados positivos hasta que llega a la tierra, lugar en el cual aprende: el valor de la amistad, acerca del amor, de la responsabilidad y de la belleza. Esta obra clásica e intemporal, aplaudida por los críticos y lectores por su pureza y belleza de expresión, presenta un nuevo formato, más alegre, con ilustraciones realizadas por el autor que han sido restauradas y remasterizadas en los vibrantes colores originales.

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1900 - 1944 Antoine de Saint-Exupery was born in Lyon, France on June 29, 1900. Saint-Exupery was educated in Jesuit schools. He later attended a Catholic boarding school in Switzerland before entering the Ecole de Beaux-Arts as an architecture student.

de Saint-Exupery began his military service in 1921 and was sent to Strasbourgh to be trained as a pilot. He received his pilot's license in 1922 and, after a few dead end jobs as a bookkeeper and an automobile salesman, he began flying mail for a commercial airline company. His route over North Africa was the basis for his first novel, Southern Mail, in 1929.

His second novel, Night Flight, became an international bestseller and was made into a film in 1933. By that time, de Saint-Exupery was married to Consuelo Gomez Castillo and was working as a test pilot for Air France. He was also working as a foreign correspondent covering May Day events in Moscow and writing a series on the Spanish Civil War.

His book, Wind, Sand and Stars won the French Academy's 1939 Grand Prix du Roman and the National Book Award in the United States. He came to the United States after France fell in World War II, but rejoined the French Air Force in North Africa in 1943. That same year he published The Little Prince, a children's story of such universal appeal that it has been translated into close to fifty languages.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery took off on a flight over Southern France on July 31, 1944 and was never seen again. In 1998, a fisherman found a bracelet with his name and his wife's name engraved on it, 150 kilometers west of Marseilles.

(Bowker Author Biography)