THE LITTLE PRINCE (Penguin Clothbound Classics) by Antoine De Saint-ExuperyAntoine de Saint Exup ry's timeless tale, reissued in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford Smith. Antoine de Saint Exup ry first published The Little Prince in 1943, only a year before his plane vanished over the Mediterranean during a reconnaissance mission. Nearly eighty years later, this fable of love and loneliness has lost none of its power. The narrator is a downed pilot in the Sahara Desert, frantically trying to repair