Book Review: The Little Prince
A book loved by all.
TITLE- The Little Prince/ Le Petit Prince (French)
AUTHOR- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
TRANSLATOR- Katherine Woods
PUBLISHED ON- April 1943
GENRES- Fantasy, Children's literature, Novella, Speculative fiction.
PAGE LENGTH- 85
WHAT'S THE STORY?
A pilot crashes in the Sahara desert. Middle of nowhere, thousand miles away from any habitation, he find himself helpless. While attempting to fix a plane he meets a strange boy who is weirdly dressed. Boy demands that the pilot should draw him a sheep, so pilot attempts to draw a sheep.
Slowly and steadily as the story proceed, the boy reveals his story. He is a Little Prince comes from a small asteroid, where he lives alone with his rose flower. But when rose started demanding, he got confused by his feeling about her. So he decided to leave his home asteroid and journey to other planets in search of knowledge. He meets many strange and confusing adults on his journey. He noticed that no one is living a free life. Everyone is running behind something in his life and don't have time to help or speak to others. At last he landed on earth, where he befriended a snake and a fox. Fox showed him that, life is only worth living when it is lived for others and not for oneself. Now that he understood why rose was demanding him, he started missing her and wanted to go home. The fox helped him understand the rose and snake offered him help to return to his asteroid, but at a price.
WHAT'S GOOD IN IT ?
1) It is a book beloved by generations of readers. It acts as bittersweet fable for kids and philosophical masterpiece for adults. The book is full of lessons which can be learned by a person of any age.
2) Families can talk with their kids about the book and it's moral. Parents can ask their children what the chapter was about and can teach them lots of the things through book.
3) Book also has some philosophical massages for adults. Such as - ruling is not of any good if there is no one to rule on, getting admired is not everything, running behind fortune is useless if you can't live a happy life, if you are not enjoying your profession then there is no point in having one, and so on.
4) Though book is translated from French to English, it does not losses it's glamour, fineness and beauty. It is also translated into number of other languages (around 300).
WHAT'S BAD IN IT?
1) Some readers may find this book little boring because of subjective opinion.
2) It is little hard to call it a children's literature, as it has lots of philosophical points which are hard to get for children.
Hope you enjoyed the review. Let me know your opinion in comment section below. Thank you.
TITLE- The Little Prince/ Le Petit Prince (French)
AUTHOR- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
TRANSLATOR- Katherine Woods
PUBLISHED ON- April 1943
GENRES- Fantasy, Children's literature, Novella, Speculative fiction.
PAGE LENGTH- 85
WHAT'S THE STORY?
A pilot crashes in the Sahara desert. Middle of nowhere, thousand miles away from any habitation, he find himself helpless. While attempting to fix a plane he meets a strange boy who is weirdly dressed. Boy demands that the pilot should draw him a sheep, so pilot attempts to draw a sheep.
Slowly and steadily as the story proceed, the boy reveals his story. He is a Little Prince comes from a small asteroid, where he lives alone with his rose flower. But when rose started demanding, he got confused by his feeling about her. So he decided to leave his home asteroid and journey to other planets in search of knowledge. He meets many strange and confusing adults on his journey. He noticed that no one is living a free life. Everyone is running behind something in his life and don't have time to help or speak to others. At last he landed on earth, where he befriended a snake and a fox. Fox showed him that, life is only worth living when it is lived for others and not for oneself. Now that he understood why rose was demanding him, he started missing her and wanted to go home. The fox helped him understand the rose and snake offered him help to return to his asteroid, but at a price.
WHAT'S GOOD IN IT ?
1) It is a book beloved by generations of readers. It acts as bittersweet fable for kids and philosophical masterpiece for adults. The book is full of lessons which can be learned by a person of any age.
2) Families can talk with their kids about the book and it's moral. Parents can ask their children what the chapter was about and can teach them lots of the things through book.
3) Book also has some philosophical massages for adults. Such as - ruling is not of any good if there is no one to rule on, getting admired is not everything, running behind fortune is useless if you can't live a happy life, if you are not enjoying your profession then there is no point in having one, and so on.
4) Though book is translated from French to English, it does not losses it's glamour, fineness and beauty. It is also translated into number of other languages (around 300).
WHAT'S BAD IN IT?
1) Some readers may find this book little boring because of subjective opinion.
2) It is little hard to call it a children's literature, as it has lots of philosophical points which are hard to get for children.
Hope you enjoyed the review. Let me know your opinion in comment section below. Thank you.
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