{"product_id":"the-little-prince-by-antoine-de-saint-exupery-9780141185620","title":"The Little Prince","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAntoine de Saint-Exupéry's timeless tale of love and loneliness is now widely available in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAntoine de Saint-Exupéry first published \u003cem\u003eThe Little Prince\u003c\/em\u003e in 1943, only a year before his plane vanished over the Mediterranean Sea during a reconnaissance mission. Nearly eighty years later, this fable of love and loneliness has lost none of its power. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe narrator is a pilot downed in the Sahara Desert, frantically trying to repair his wrecked plane. His efforts are interrupted one day by the miraculous appearance 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.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd so begins their dialogue, one confined only by the limits of the imagination, by the horizon of a child's wonder...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46298778960108,"sku":"9780141185620","price":17.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/6658183482238.jpg?v=1743041199","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/the-little-prince-by-antoine-de-saint-exupery-9780141185620","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}