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The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint−Exupery
The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint−Exupery
Table of Contents
The Little Prince. ..................................................................................................................................1
Chapter 1 . .............................................................................................................................................2
Chapter 2 . .............................................................................................................................................4
Chapter 3 . .............................................................................................................................................7
Chapter 4 . .............................................................................................................................................9
Chapter 5 . ...........................................................................................................................................12
Chapter 6 . ...........................................................................................................................................15
Chapter 7 . ...........................................................................................................................................16
Chapter 8 . ...........................................................................................................................................19
Chapter 9 . ...........................................................................................................................................22
Chapter 10 . .........................................................................................................................................24
Chapter 11 . .........................................................................................................................................28
Chapter 12 . .........................................................................................................................................30
Chapter 13 . .........................................................................................................................................31
Chapter 14. ..........................................................................................................................................34
Chapter 15 . .........................................................................................................................................37
Chapter 16. ..........................................................................................................................................40
Chapter 17 . .........................................................................................................................................41
Chapter 18. ..........................................................................................................................................43
Chapter 19. ..........................................................................................................................................44
Chapter 20. ..........................................................................................................................................45
Chapter 21. ..........................................................................................................................................47
Chapter 22. ..........................................................................................................................................51
Chapter 23. ..........................................................................................................................................52
Chapter 24. ..........................................................................................................................................53
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The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint−Exupery
Table of Contents
Chapter 25. ..........................................................................................................................................55
Chapter 26. ..........................................................................................................................................58
Chapter 27. ..........................................................................................................................................64
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The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint−Exupery
To Leon Werth
I ask the indulgence of the children who may read this book for dedicating
it to a grown−up. I have a serious reason: he is the best friend I have in
the world. I have another reason: this grown−up understands everything,
even books about children. I have a third reason: he lives in France where
he is hungry and cold. He needs cheering up. If all these reasons are not
enough, I will dedicate the book to the child from whom this grown−up
grew. All grown−ups were once children−− although few of them
remember it. And so I correct my dedication:
To Leon Werth
when he was a little boy
 
Chapter 1
− we are introduced to the narrator, a pilot, and his ideas about grown−ups
Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True
Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest. It was a picture of a boa constrictor
in the act of swallowing an animal. Here is a copy of the drawing.
In the book it said: "Boa constrictors swallow their prey whole, without chewing
it. After that they are not able to move, and they sleep through the six months that
they need for digestion."
I pondered deeply, then, over the adventures of the jungle. And after some work
with a colored pencil I succeeded in making my first drawing. My Drawing
Number One. It looked like this:
I showed my masterpiece to the grown−ups, and asked them whether the drawing
frightened them.
But they answered: "Frighten? Why should any one be frightened by a hat?"
My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor
digesting an elephant. But since the grown−ups were not able to understand it, I
made another drawing: I drew the inside of the boa constrictor, so that the
grown−ups could see it clearly. They always need to have things explained. My
Drawing Number Two looked like this:
The grown−ups' response, this time, was to advise me to lay aside my drawings of
boa constrictors, whether from the inside or the outside, and devote myself instead
to geography, history, arithmetic and grammar. That is why, at the age of six, I
gave up what might have been a magnificent career as a painter. I had been
disheartened by the failure of my Drawing Number One and my Drawing Number
Two. Grown−ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for
children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
So then I chose another profession, and learned to pilot airplanes. I have flown a
little over all parts of the world; and it is true that geography has been very useful
to me. At a glance I can distinguish China from Arizona. If one gets lost in the
night, such knowledge is valuable.
In the course of this life I have had a great many encounters with a great many
people who have been concerned with matters of consequence. I have lived a great
 

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