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Description The Little Prince Le Petit Prince], is a novella and the most famous work of the French aristocrat, writer, poet and pioneering aviator Antoine de Saint-Exup ry (1900-1944).

The novella is both the most-read and most-translated book in the French language, and was voted the best book of the 20th century in France.

After the outbreak of the Second World War Saint-Exup ry became exiled in North America.

In the midst of personal upheavals and failing health, he produced almost half of the writings for which he would be remembered, including a tender tale of loneliness, friendship, love and loss, in the form of a young prince fallen to Earth.

An earlier memoir by the author had recounted his aviation experiences in the Sahara Desert, and he is thought to have drawn on those same experiences in The Little Prince.

Since its first publication in the United States, the novella has been adapted to numerous art forms and media, including audio recordings, radio plays, live stage, film screen, television, ballet, and operatic works.

The Little Prince is a poetic tale, with watercolour illustrations by the author, in which a pilot stranded in the desert meets a young prince fallen to Earth from a tiny asteroid.

The story is philosophical and includes social criticism, remarking on the strangeness of the adult world.

It was written during a period when Saint-Exup ry fled to North America subsequent to the Fall of France during the Second World War, witnessed first hand by the author and captured in his memoir Flight to Arras.

The adult fable, according to one review, is actually .

an allegory of Saint-Exup ry's own life--his search for childhood certainties and interior peace, his mysticism, his belief in human courage and brotherhood.

but also an allusion to the tortured nature of their relationship.

Though ostensibly styled as a children's book, The Little Prince makes several observations about life and human nature.

For example, Saint-Exup ry tells of a fox.