Based on true experiences as well as deeply held beliefs, The Little Prince is a fantasy novel that comments on the social ills of Saint-Exupéry’s time. His experiences piloting the small, open-cockpit planes and brokering peace between the Moors of Africa and the imperial French and Spanish occupiers of the land inspired him to write serious books chronicling his desert adventures during this era.
A novel set in the Sahara Desert in the 1940s published in 1943.Ī pilot recalls his encounter with a magical Little Prince whom he meets when stranded in the Sahara Desert and who teaches him the meaning of life.Įvents in History at the Time of the NovelĪ French airman during the “golden age” of aviation, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry flew mail routes in northern Africa throughout the 1920s and 1930s.
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