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[[File:the_little_prince1_7459.jpg|frame|"Once upon a time there was a little prince who lived on a planet that was scarcely bigger than himself, and who had need of a sheep."]]
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A worldwide literary classic (it's been translated into 190 languages), ''The Little Prince'' (''Le Petit Prince'' in French) is a 1943 children's book written by French aviator and count [[Antoine De Saint Exupery]]. It is the fictional account of a French aviator whose plane crashes in the Sahara desert, a thousand miles from civilization. He is approached by a young prince who requests that he draw him a sheep, which leads into the prince describing to the narrator his life on an asteroid and his travels from planet to planet in search of the meaning of [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|life, the universe, and everything]]. While the book was written for children, the philosophical content appeals to any adult reader, as during the prince's adventures he encounters analogues of many of the traits of modern humanity, and learns about love and friendship from the plants and animals he meets.
Adaptations have mostly been for the stage, but there's also a 1974 movie musical and a 1979 Claymation short. It also inspired an [[wikipedia:The Adventures of the Little Prince (TV series)|anime]]. There is also a new CGI cartoon, airing on French TV, called [https://web.archive.org/web/20131030065731/http://www.thelittleprince.com/tv-serie/the-origins/ The New Adventures of the Little Prince].
The book
The story is in the public domain, and can be read in its entirety [http://www.angelfire.com/hi/littleprince/frames.html here].
Not in any way a [[Spear Counterpart]] to ''[[A Little Princess]].''
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* [[Adults Are Useless]]: A recurring theme is that adults do not understand what is really important in life, do not know what they are really looking for, and are obsessed with numbers to the point of insanity.
* [[Author Avatar]]: The [[Narrator]] who meets the little prince.
** The little prince himself bears some resemblance to the author as a child.
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