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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Born

in Lyon, France

June 29, 1900

Died

July 31, 1944

Website

http://www.antoinedesaintexupery.com/

Genre

Philosophy, Children's Books, Nonfiction

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People best know French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry for his fairy tale The Little Prince (1943).

He flew for the first time at the age of 12 years in 1912 at the Ambérieu airfield and then determined to a pilot. Even after moving to a school in Switzerland and spending summer vacations at the château of the family at Saint-Maurice-de-Rémens in east, he kept that ambition. He repeatedly uses the house at Saint-Maurice.

Later, in Paris, he failed the entrance exams for the naval academy and instead enrolled at the prestigious l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In 1921, Saint-Exupéry, stationed in Strasbourg, began serving in the military. He learned and forever settled his career path as a pilot. After leaving the service in 1923, Sa People best know French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry for his fairy tale The Little Prince (1943).

He flew for the first time at the age of 12 years in 1912 at the Ambérieu airfield and then determined to a pilot. Even after moving to a school in Switzerland and spending summer vacations at the château of the family at Saint-Maurice-de-Rémens in east, he kept that ambition. He repeatedly uses the house at Saint-Maurice.

Later, in Paris, he failed the entrance exams for the naval academy and instead enrolled at the prestigious l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In 1921, Saint-Exupéry, stationed in Strasbourg, began serving in the military. He learned and forever settled his career path as a pilot. After leaving the service in 1923, Saint-Exupéry worked in several professions but in 1926 went back and signed as a pilot for Aéropostale, a private airline that from Toulouse flew mail to Dakar, Senegal. In 1927, Saint-Exupéry accepted the position of airfield chief for Cape Juby in southern Morocco and began his first book, a memoir, called Southern Mail and published in 1929.

He then moved briefly to Buenos Aires to oversee the establishment of an Argentinean mail service, returned to Paris in 1931, and then published Night Flight , which won instant success and the prestigious Prix Femina. Always daring Saint-Exupéry tried from Paris in 1935 to break the speed record for flying to Saigon. Unfortunately, his plane crashed in the Libyan Desert, and he and his copilot trudged through the sand for three days to find help. In 1938, a second plane crash at that time, as he tried to fly between city of New York and Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, seriously injured him. The crash resulted in a long convalescence in New York.

He published Wind, Sand and Stars , next novel, in 1939. This great success won the grand prize for novel of the academy and the national book award in the United States. Saint-Exupéry flew reconnaissance missions at the beginning of the Second World War but went to New York to ask the United States for help when the Germans occupied his country. He drew on his wartime experiences to publish Flight to Arras and Letter to a Hostage in 1942.

Later in 1943, Saint-Exupéry rejoined his air squadron in northern Africa. From earlier plane crashes, Saint-Exupéry still suffered physically, and people forbade him to fly, but he insisted on a mission. From Borgo, Corsica, on 31 July 1944, he set to overfly occupied region. He never returned.
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	The Little Prince 4.33 avg rating — 2,211,552 ratings — published 1943 — 5281 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wind, Sand and Stars 4.12 avg rating — 19,304 ratings — published 1939 — 57 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Little Prince & Letter to a Hostage by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, T.V.F. Cuffe (Translator) 4.40 avg rating — 11,988 ratings — published 1943 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Night Flight 3.79 avg rating — 11,138 ratings — published 1931 — 75 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flight To Arras by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Lewis Galantière 3.90 avg rating — 3,250 ratings — published 1942 — 202 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Citadelle 4.14 avg rating — 2,247 ratings — published 1948 — 142 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	J'apprends à compter avec le Petit Prince 4.42 avg rating — 1,698 ratings — published 2000 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Southern Mail by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Curtis Cate (Translator) 3.61 avg rating — 1,969 ratings — published 1929 — 149 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lettre à un otage by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Françoise Gerbod (Preface) 3.93 avg rating — 1,546 ratings — published 1944 — 86 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Guide for Grown-ups: Essential Wisdom from the Collected Works of Antoine de Saint-Exupry 4.20 avg rating — 734 ratings — published 2002 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: heart, importance, inspiration, secret, the-little-prince

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“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

tags: love

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“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: reminding

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January 2016 Short Story Read

1943, The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 98 pages

28 votes, 20.4%

1945, Animal Farm by George Orwell, 102 pages

22 votes, 16.1%

1952, Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, 109 pages

19 votes, 13.9%

1886, The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy, 86 pages

17 votes, 12.4%

1945, The Pearl by John Steinbeck, 87 pages

12 votes, 8.8%

1924, The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb: A Short Story by Agatha Christie, 32 pages

11 votes, 8.0%

1884, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott, 96 pages

9 votes, 6.6%

1936, Double Indemnity by James M. Cain, 115 pages

7 votes, 5.1%

1865, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Nikolai Leskov, 88 pages

3 votes, 2.2%

1836, The Minister's Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 37 pages

3 votes, 2.2%

1924, The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell, 48 pages

2 votes, 1.5%

1903, To Build A Fire by Jack London, 32 pages

2 votes, 1.5%

1886, Kholstomer by Leo Tolstoy, 56 pages

2 votes, 1.5%

1914, Painful Case by James Joyce

0 votes, 0.0%

137 total votes

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