{"product_id":"the-little-prince-hardcover-1","title":"The Little Prince (Hardcover)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAntoine de Saint-Exupery's timeless tale, reissued in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nAntoine de Saint-Exupery first published \u003ci\u003eThe Little Prince\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nThe narrator is a downed pilot in the Sahara Desert, frantically trying to repair his wrecked plane. His efforts are interrupted one day by the apparition of a little prince, who asks him to draw a sheep. \"In the face of an overpowering mystery, you don't dare disobey,\" the narrator recalls. \"Absurd as it seemed, a thousand miles from all inhabited regions and in danger of death, I took a scrap of paper and a pen out of my pocket.\" And so begins their dialogue, which stretches the narrator's imagination in all sorts of surprising, childlike directions.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","brand":"Antoine de Saint-Exupéry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45143474733234,"sku":"9780241508664","price":380.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/files\/348880_626884e14c5e64.59124957_9780241508664.jpg?v=1739457020","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/the-little-prince-hardcover-1","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}