Saint-Exupery's classic story is related by a pilot who finds himself stranded in the Sahara Desert after he is forced to crash-land. While trying to repair his plane, he encounters a strange child, and discovers that his mysterious visitor is the prince, and sole occupant, of Asteroid B612.
The Little Prince is the most translated boo k in the French language. Both moral fable and spiritual aut obiography, it is the story of a little boy who lives alone on a planet not much bigger than himself, who leaves it to t ravel round the universe '