The Little Prince
4.690 kr.The narrator is a downed pilot in the Sahara Desert, frantically trying to repair his wrecked plane. His efforts are interrupted one day by the apparition of a little prince, who asks him to draw a sheep. “In the face of an overpowering mystery, you don’t dare disobey,” the narrator recalls.
“Absurd as it seemed, a thousand miles from all inhabited regions and in danger of death, I took a scrap of paper and a pen out of my pocket.” And so begins their dialogue, which stretches the narrator’s imagination in all sorts of surprising, childlike directions.
Night Flight
2.490 kr.Fabien tonight was wandering over the vast splendour of a sea of clouds, but below him lay eternity.
Inspired by his career as an aviator, Saint-Exupéry’s soaring novel follows the journeys of three pilots delivering mail overnight. The author’s beautiful, weightless prose is as haunting as his own disappearance in flight, eerily foreshadowed by his protagonist Fabien, who becomes lost in otherworldly darkness. Letter to a Hostage, Saint-Exupéry’s meditation on displacement and friendship, also explores solitude and questions the human condition.
Litli prinsinn
4.990 kr.Litli prinsinn er sígild og ástsæl saga um flugmann sem brotlendir í eyðimörk og hittir þar lítinn prins frá ókunnugri plánetu. Prinsinn segir honum frá ferð sinni um alheiminn, öllum sem hann hefur hitt og öllu því sem hann hefur lært um lífið.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944) var rithöfundur og flugmaður. Hans þekktasta verk er Litli prinsinn sem kom fyrst út árið 1943. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry hvarf sporlaust ári síðar í síðustu flugferð sinni yfir hernumdu Frakklandi.
„Maður sér ekki skýrt nema með hjartanu. Það mikilvægasta er ósýnilegt augunum.“
Litli prinsinn er ein vinsælasta bók í heimi. Hún hefur komið út á yfir 250 tungumálum og selst í meira en 200 milljónum eintaka. Þessi ljóðræna og heimspekilega saga, um einmanaleika, ástina, lífið og dauðann, er ógleymanleg lestrarupplifun fyrir bæði börn og fullorðna.