This Paperback Book item from Harvest Books was reviewed on 5-Sep-2008.
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1) Paperback Book The Little Prince by Harvest Books. Ah, the amount of philosophy and beauty and imagination you can cram into a story this short! I have never read the original French version, but the English translation is as powerful as I could hope for, a surreal story of fantasy that speaks such eternal truths of love and life and the sheer faith of childhood.
We have a man who has put aside his childhood dreams to grow up. His plane crashes in the desert, and it is here he meets a young prince from a distant asteroid.
As we have the gritty real story of survival, we have a powerful and yet just as real story of this little boy´s adventures and discovery.
It´s a strong and complex parable, and also just a great story besides.¤ 2) Paperback Book The Little Prince by Harvest Books. Reporter of little prince
I was reading a book which is named little prince. It is a French writer´s writing.
The story of little prince is a fairy tale. The whole content is very interesting. The relater was a pilot, and he had an accident with his plane in the desert of sahara in six years ago. In that time, he met a little prince. He knew the little prince was from another celestial body though by talking to him. Then the little prince related to him everything about the celestial body where he came from, especial his rose. The writer retails the everything in another six celestial bodies besides the earth where the little prince had been gone. At last , the little prince gone. The writer was very sad, as a result he wrote a book to commemorate him.
On his all-alone journey, the little prince met different kinds of people, which includes a king, a conceited man, a tippler, a businessman, a lamplighter and a geographer. From these people he got a conclusion that the grown-ups are very odd. Following the first character, he went to the Sahara, on the earth.
Traveling on the earth, the little prince, who saw a garden of five-thousand roses, was overcome with astonishment and sadness, as he considered his rose was unique in the universe before. At that time a fox appeared. The fox, who told the little prince about the meaning of the word "tame", becomes his new friend. At the time to said farewell, the fox made him know that his rose was unique because she was his rose and tamed by him. From that the little prince began to treasure friendship and be responsible to his rose.
The little prince was a guy who was artless and always curious. He did everything seriously. But he also was alone; enjoy watching the sundown on the chair. He even was sad, he loved a rose deeply.
Maybe it´s more significant for us to imagine, and for more, think over.
¤ 3) Paperback Book The Little Prince by Harvest Books. Written in 1943, this little book long ago attained the status of timeless classic. Yet, when discussed at our book club, our members could agree on little about the book´s interpretation, sensibility, or even if it is appropriate for children. Some viewed it as an innovative form of literature requiring both a narrator and an inquisitor: What did that mean daddy? Where did the Little Prince go daddy? Does he love the rose? Who tamed whom? Some viewed it as a sort of religious work designed to teach our children "what is really important in life". Do you like butterflies? What sort of voice does she have? On the other hand, some felt that the book allowed children to question the wisdom of adults, especially parents. Is this one of those deals Like Text Messaging where kids get it but adults never can? Others, who knew something about the author´s life---why should it matter--- read it as a sort of suicide note disguised as a children´s book. It was during these darker moments that one wag commented that any work that can stimulate a discussion this gloomy had to be something really special. And, here´s where we all started to agree. This is not a work that speaks for itself. It is, instead, a sort of catalyst that will produce different enlightenments for different readers and narrators. While Saint-Exupery´s little book can open doors to wisdom, you have to enter by yourself. That so many continue to choose to do so is testimony to his greatness as a writer and a teacher.¤ 4) Paperback Book The Little Prince by Harvest Books. I don´t know how to begin to describe The Little Prince. In some ways it is like reviewing love itself. While many books have touched me emotionally, this short children´s story has gone farther and deeper than any other. Everything about it is perfection: sweet, sad, flawed perfection. It is a tale of tears. It is about loving so much that you would embrace pain, even death, for the beloved, of loving sorrow because it comes from the beloved. It is about allowing yourself to be tamed even if it hurts.
Love is a goal in and of itself, a goal that the Little Prince learns to embrace at great cost to himself, but it is not the pure, perfect little one who I love most, nor the hardened but softening adult narrator. My true soul mate is the Fox who invites the Prince, pleads for the Prince, to tame him, to make him his own even though it brings tears and heartbreak. Oh! To love like that! That is the joy and sorrow of human existence, the gift of life. This book is perfection.¤ 5) Paperback Book The Little Prince by Harvest Books. It´s a good story book for adults. I have had it at my home, and now I live alone and I would like to keep one closed to me when I think of it.¤ 6) Paperback Book The Little Prince by Harvest Books. Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike as The Little Prince. Richard Howard´s new translation of the beloved classic-published to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry´s birth-beautifully reflects Saint-Exupéry´s unique and gifted style. Howard, an acclaimed poet and one of the preeminent translators of our time, has excelled in bringing the English text as close as possible to the French, in language, style, and most important, spirit. The artwork in this new edition has been restored to match in detail and in color Saint-Exupéry´s original artwork. By combining the new translation with restored original art, Harcourt is proud to introduce the definitive English-language edition of
¤7) Paperback Book The Little Prince by Harvest Books. 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. The Little Prince describes his journey from planet to planet, each tiny world populated by a single adult. It´s a wonderfully inventive sequence, which evokes not only the great fairy tales but also such monuments of postmodern whimsy as Italo Calvino´s Invisible Cities. And despite his tone of gentle bemusement, Saint-Exupéry pulls off some fine satiric touches, too. There´s the king, for example, who commands the Little Prince to function as a one-man (or one-boy) judiciary: I have good reason to believe that there is an old rat living somewhere on my planet. I hear him at night. You could judge that old rat. From time to time you will condemn him to death. That way his life will depend on your justice. But you´ll pardon him each time for economy´s sake. There´s only one rat. The author pokes similar fun at a businessman, a geographer, and a lamplighter, all of whom signify some futile aspect of adult existence. Yet his tale is ultimately a tender one--a heartfelt exposition of sadness and solitude, which never turns into Peter Pan-style treacle. Such delicacy of tone can present real headaches for a translator, and in her 1943 translation, Katherine Woods sometimes wandered off the mark, giving the text a slightly wooden or didactic accent. Happily, Richard Howard (who did a fine nip-and-tuck job on Stendhal´s The Charterhouse of Parma in 1999) has streamlined and simplified to wonderful effect. The result is a new and improved version of an indestructible classic, which also restores the original artwork to full color. "Trying to be witty," we´re told at one point, "leads to lying, more or less." But Saint-Exupéry´s drawings offer a handy rebuttal: they´re fresh, funny, and like the book itself, rigorously truthful. --James Marcus¤Page Updated: Robert N. Goolsby, 3-Oct-2008, 01560121979780156012195, 740-970-830-780-7UB-7YB-8 
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