文档介绍：The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Introduction
The Little Prince ,published in 1943, is French pilot Antoine de Saint- Exupery 's(圣埃克苏佩里) most famous novel. It has been translated into more than 190 languages and has sold more than 80 million copies, making it the best selling French-language book and one of the best selling books ever .
The First Chapter
You can not imagine it shows that a boa(蟒蛇) is swallowing an elephant !!!
The prince asks the pilot to draw a sheep. Not knowing how to draw a sheep, the pilot shows the prince a picture that he had previously drawn: a boa with an elephant in its stomach (a drawing which previous viewers mistook for a hat).
"No! No!" exclaims the prince. "I don't want a boa constrictor from the inside or outside. I want a sheep!“
He tries a few sheep drawings, which the prince rejects.
Finally he draws a box, which he explains has the sheep inside.
The prince, who can see the sheep inside the box just as well as he can see the elephant in the boa, says "That's perfect."
The little prince lives on a called Asteroid B612. He can see the sunset 44 times a day on his . He has an unique rose and falls in love with her, who returns his love but is unable to express it due to her own pettiness.
Plots
One day, he has some quarrel with his rose, then he left his own and took an exploration at some neighbor s.
A king
A vanity man
A tippler(酒鬼)
A businessman
A lamplighter
A geographer
On his all-alone journey,
the little prince meets different kinds of people, each of which is inhabited by an adult who is foolish in his own way.
The King who can "control" the stars, but only by ordering them to do what they would do anyway. He then relates this to his human subjects; it is the citizens' duty to obey, but only if the king's demands are reasonable. He orders the prince to leave as his ambassador .
The Geographer spends all of his time making maps, but never leaves his desk to examine anywhere (even his o