The Little Prince (Classic Translation)

"The Little Prince" is a famous children's literature short story written by French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in 1942. The protagonist of this book is a little prince from an alien planet. The book uses a pilot as the narrator to tell the story of the various adventures the little prince experienced during his journey from his own planet to the earth. With the child-like vision of the little prince, the author reveals the emptiness, blindness, ignorance and rigid dogma of adults, and writes in plain and innocent language the loneliness of human beings and their fate of wandering in the wind without a foundation. At the same time, it also expresses the author's criticism of money relationships and his praise of truth, goodness and beauty. This book also contains a novella "Night Flight" by the author. This novel tells the story of three postal planes flying from Patagonia, Chile and Paraguay to Buenos Aires one night, and one of them crashed due to a hurricane. The story unfolds on two lines that appear to be parallel but are actually closely related. The pilot Fabian struggles in the night sky with lightning and thunder, while the flight manager Rivière is anxious in the brightly lit office; there is movement and silence, one dark and one bright, and the images of high contrast between light and shadow alternately appear, compact, rhythmic, and thrilling. Mountains, deserts, storms, thunderstorms, these ever-changing natural phenomena are three-dimensional and vivid in the author's writing; and the emotional and concrete words have a strong appeal. Whether in terms of content or narrative techniques, "Night Flight" is a masterpiece among novellas.