Antoine de Saint-Exupéry first published The Little Prince in 1943, only a year before his Lockheed P-38 vanished over the Mediterranean during a reconnaissance mission. More than a half century later, this fable of love and loneliness has lost none of its power. The narrator is a downed pilot in the Sahara Desert, frantically trying to repair his wrecked plane. His efforts are...
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry first published The Little Prince in 1943, only a year before his Lockheed P-38 vanished over the Mediterranean during a reconnaissance mission. More than a half century later, this fable of love and loneliness has lost none of its power. The 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, well, 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.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY, the "Winged Poet," was born in Lyon, France, in 1900. A pilot at twenty-six, he was a pioneer of commercial aviation and flew in the Spanish Civil War and World War II. His writings include The Little Prince, Wind, Sand and Stars, Night Flight, Southern Mail, and Airman's Odyssey. In 1944, while flying a reconnaissance mission for his French air squadr...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY, the "Winged Poet," was born in Lyon, France, in 1900. A pilot at twenty-six, he was a pioneer of commercial aviation and flew in the Spanish Civil War and World War II. His writings include The Little Prince, Wind, Sand and Stars, Night Flight, Southern Mail, and Airman's Odyssey. In 1944, while flying a reconnaissance mission for his French air squadron, he disappeared over the Mediterranean.
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一、翻译依据的版本 这本书的最后,有单独的一页郑重其事的”版本说明“: 本书根据法国Gallimard出版社2007年版的Le Petit Prince译出,翻译过程中参考了T.V.F. Cuff的英译本,即美国PenguinBooks出版公司2000年版的The Little Prince。 但下面的例子可证明,这书是从英译...
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0 有用 哈雷星的猫 2023-06-04 21:33:42 云南
大一时在国家图书馆看过英文原版,去年在香港铜锣湾诚品书店买了一本带回来,好像一直都跟小王子一样,离开故乡的星球,在漂泊的途中
1 有用 小f 2014-06-16 20:51:51
一个炎热的中午读的 感觉心灵轻了很多
0 有用 一粒家田米 2022-09-21 16:02:19
不仅是序言最多的。这本书后面还提供了一本来自南方的信啊。书的质感也非常好,这是企鹅最好的一本。
0 有用 lish 2022-03-04 14:40:47
Eventually, what is truly important? What does truly matter? The book is a reflection on that question.
0 有用 Knight 2014-10-29 10:04:27
第一本读完的英文原版书籍