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《小王子》（1943年），安托万德圣埃克苏佩里著

This parable, written and illustrated by an aviator disappeared with his plane in 1944, encapsulates the meaning of life in an encounter between a pilot who crash lands in the Sahara and a young prince visiting from a small planet. "It is only with one"s heart that one can see clearly," Saint-Exupéry writes, in one of dozens of illuminating life lessons. "What is essential is invisible to the eye."
《小王子》的作者兼插画师是一名飞行员，他于1944年在飞行中失踪。这则寓言故事将生命的意义寓于迫降在撒哈拉沙漠的飞行员和来自小星球的小王子的一次相遇中。圣埃克苏佩里写下了众多发人深省的人生感悟，其中一则写道：“肉眼看不见事务的本质，唯有用心才能洞察一切”。
"Discovered in childhood, this story of leaving home brings the hope and promise of a world opening up to the little prince," says Shelf Awareness children"s editor Jennifer M Brown. "As we return to the book at later points in our lives, we experience the story from the pilot"s point of view, sadder yet richer, and heartened because we are not alone on life"s journey." (Credit: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)