A Guide for Grown-ups: Essential Wisdom from the Collected Works of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

A delightful collection of inspiring quotations from the mind of Antoine de Saint- Exupéry, author of The Little Prince.

“One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.”

For more than sixty years, this insight from The Little Prince has been quoted in more than 130 languages by fans around the world. Now, for the first time, quotations from the collected works and letters of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry are presented in a charming gift edition. Six chapters—“Happiness,” “Friendship,” “Responsibility,” “Fortitude,” “Love,” and “What Is Essential”—offer inspirational and thought-provoking words about the subjects held most dear by the author.

A perfect gift for graduates—or for anyone who wants gentle guidance.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: May 1, 2002
• ISBN: 9780547540122

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944), born in Lyons, France, is one of the world’s best loved and widest read writers. His timeless fable, The Little Prince, has sold more than 100 million copies and has been translated into nearly every language. His pilot’s memoir, Wind, Sand and Stars, won the National Book Award and was named the #1 adventure book of all time by Outside magazine and was ranked #3 on National Geographic Adventure’s list of all-time-best exploration books. His other books include Night Flight; Southern Mail; and Airman's Odyssey. A pilot at twenty-six, he was a pioneer of commercial aviation and flew in the Spanish Civil War and World War II. In 1944, while flying a reconnaissance mission for his French air squadron, he disappeared over the Mediterranean.  Stacy Schiff is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of several bestselling biographies and historical works including, most recently, The Witches: Salem, 1692. In 2018 she was named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. Awarded a 2006 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she was inducted into the Academy in 2019. Schiff has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, and The Los Angeles Times, among many other publications. She lives in New York City.

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 1900–1944.

[Selections. English 2002]

A guide for grown-ups: essential wisdom from the collected works of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry/Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 1900–1944—Translations into English.

I. Title.

PQ2637.A274A2 2002

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ISBN 0-15-216711-0

eISBN 978-0-547-54012-2

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Compilation assistance by Jennifer Ward

Hand lettering by John Burns

Editor’s Note

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