The Little Prince

Basic information
• Title: The Little Prince (in French,
Le Petit Prince)
• Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• Genre: Children’s story, novella,
allegory
• Date of first publication:1943
Antoine de Saint-
Exupery
• Was born 29 June in 1900
France in Lyon
• As a child he was a dreamer,
played violin, wrote poems
• At home in France, he was a
famous pilot
 Summary of the plot
• The narrator begins the tale with an explanation of his dislike of
adults
• The narrator next tells of how his plane crashed in the desert, where
he met the Little Prince
• He tells why the Prince left his planet and where he visited before
coming to Earth.
Characters
• The Narrator
• The Little Prince
• The Rose
• The Baobabs
• The King
• The Vain Man
• The Drunkard
• The Businessman
• The Lamplighter
• The Geographer
• The Snake
• The Fox
Main characters
• The Narrator- a lonely pilot
• The Little Prince- he journeys around the universe,
• The Rose- a coquettish flower
• The Snake- the first character the prince meets on
Earth
• The Fox- the fox asks the prince to tame him
 The Little Prince is the second
most translated book in the world,
after the Bible.

Interesting All the illustrations in the book are

facts made by the author himself

Most likely, the Prince’s rose was

inspired by Saint-Exupery’s wife,
Consuelo
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