“The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry has been in my top five books since I was roughly the same age as the Prince himself. I have long been an admirer of Saint-Exupéry and have marvelled at the fullness of his brief life. But I discovered many wonderful things that I never knew about him or the background to his writing of that book in the Wikipedia article about it. This is a fine piece about the book — very detailed and inspiring. Follow the link below to read it. I recommend it wholeheartedly to you and hope it will put you on the edge of your seat, in flight, with joyful tears, as much as it did for me…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Prince

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