{"product_id":"the-little-prince-and-letter-to-a-hostage","title":"The Little Prince: And Letter to a Hostage","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAntoine de Saint-Exupery's timeless tale, reissued in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Antoine de Saint-Exupery first published \u003ci\u003eThe Little Prince\u003c\/i\u003e in 1943, only a year before his plane vanished over the Mediterranean during a reconnaissance mission. Nearly eighty years later, this fable of love and loneliness has lost none of its power.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHardback | 160 pages | Published December 2021\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GARDNERS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64957612458333,"sku":"9780241508664","price":18.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/3459\/8749\/files\/9780241508664.jpg?v=1781201090","url":"https:\/\/www.thebookmark.ie\/products\/the-little-prince-and-letter-to-a-hostage","provider":"The Bookmark ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}