Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is best known as the author of the 1943 novella "The Little Prince," but he was much more. This exquisitely illustrated biography recounts his life as a pilot ...

The Little Prince tells the story of a pilot who, after crashing his plane ... The book is fanciful and imaginative, and features bright illustrations from the author. Judging from this brief ...

He had final say on the layout, placement, scale, color, and accompanying captions for his illustrations ... twinned voyages of the pilot-narrator and the Little Prince, perhaps symbols of ...

It’s the story of a precocious boy who enchants a stranded pilot ... Little Prince’s story within the story is told with a stop-motion so elegant that it’s as if the watercolor illustrations ...

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s beloved tale of a pilot and a young alien prince ... always sketching little people on scraps of paper. 6. He had to improvise on some of the illustrations’ models.

The prince relates tale after tale to the pilot, who is sympathetic ... Saint-Exupéry turned to his ethereal little friend for comfort, drafting illustration after illustration, page after ...

The Morgan exhibition, with 25 pages of the original manuscript and some 43 illustrations ... Little Prince also meets what seems a fatal end with a snake, although he’d assured the pilot ...

The famous work of fiction is about a pilot stranded in ... sketch for the book's final illustration, according to Peter Harrington Rare Books. The Little Prince is part of a "global literary ...

An original watercolour illustration from Antoine de Saint-Exupery's timeless classic The Little Prince, one of the world's best-ever selling books, is to be auctioned in Paris next week.