Le Petit Prince Author: Antoine de Saint-Exup?ry | Language: English | ISBN:
0156013983 | Format: EPUB
Le Petit Prince Description
In 2000 Harcourt proudly reissued Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's masterpiece, The Little Prince, in a sparkling new format. Newly translated by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Howard, this timeless classic was embraced by critics and readers across the country for its purity and beauty of expression. And Saint-Exupéry's beloved artwork was restored and remastered to present his work in its original and vibrant colors.
Now Harcourt is issuing uniform full-color foreign language editions. The restored artwork glows like never before. These affordable and beautiful editions are sure to delight an entire new generation of readers, students, children, and adults for whom Saint-Exupéry's story will open the door to a new understanding of life.
- Age Range: 10 and up
- Grade Level: 4 and up
- Paperback: 85 pages
- Publisher: Harcourt, Inc.; French language edition (September 4, 2001)
- Language: French
- ISBN-10: 0156013983
- ISBN-13: 978-0156013987
- Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.3 x 0.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
... if you, like me, are looking for the original French. This edition is a low-budget knockoff, an affront to Saint-Exupery's memory and genius. You can tell that it's illegitimate because there's no publisher information page. As another reviewer says, the photos all look as though they have been scanned and reprinted in a very low-quality format. They were so heinous that I barely scanned the text itself before throwing it back in the return box. I'm going to try the dark blue Harcourt version next, Le Petit Prince Publisher: Harcourt, Inc.; French language edition. They're the publishing house that absorbed the original publishers, Reynal & Hitchcock (according to Wikipedia). I quote directly from Amazon's Book Description:
"In 2000 Harcourt proudly reissued Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's masterpiece, The Little Prince, in a sparkling new format. Newly translated by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Howard, this timeless classic was embraced by critics and readers across the country for its purity and beauty of expression. And Saint-Exupéry's beloved artwork was restored and remastered to present his work in its original and vibrant colors.
Now Harcourt is issuing uniform full-color foreign language editions. The restored artwork glows like never before. These affordable and beautiful editions are sure to delight an entire new generation of readers, students, children, and adults for whom Saint-Exupéry's story will open the door to a new understanding of life."
That sounds much more promising! And it appears to even cost less than the Petra Books knockoff.
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