The Little Prince - Wordsworth Classics Book cover type:Paperback bestselling author Marcus Chown breaks

bestselling author Marcus Chown breaks down complex science into manageable chunks

This powerful novel

particularly at Christmas time

tilts at windmills and battles with sheep in the service of the lady of his dreams

The Little Prince - Wordsworth Classics Book cover type:Paperback bestselling author Marcus Chown breaksThe Little Prince is a modern fable, and for readers far and wide both the title and the work have exerted a pull far in excess of the book's brevity. Written and published first by Antoine de St Exupry in 1943, only a year before his plane disappeared on a reconnaissance flight, it is one of the world's most widely translated books, enjoyed by adults and children alike. In the meeting of the narrator who has ditched his plane in the Sahara desert,