History Literature / TheLittlePrince

* CunningLikeAFox: Strangely, although the fox is very worldly-wise, it isn't cunning or even particularly self-interested.

* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: Perhaps a bit, um, ''petty'' to bring it up, but still...
* AuthorAvatar:
** The {{Narrator}} who meets the Little Prince.
** The Little Prince himself bears some resemblance to the author as a child.

* ArtisticLicenseAstromomy: Perhaps a bit, um, ''petty'' to bring it up, but still...

%%* BabyPlanet
%%* BittersweetEnding

%%* ChildrenAreInnocent

%%* ConstantlyCurious

%%* LoveHurts: And how.

** In fact, every planet met is solely inhabited by ''one person'' (except for Earth).
** The Geographer's planet is vast like the Earth, but not much of it is seen to know if he is the only inhabitant. The King's planet may or may not have a rat on it.

---> "One day," you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty-four times!"
---> And a little later you added:
---> "You know-- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad..."
---> "Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?"
---> But the little prince made no reply.

* AdultsAreUseless: The story begins with the narrator telling us a story of his first attempts at drawing - and why he immediately gave up on it, as a big establishing metaphor on how adults lose their creative minds and imagination when they grow up, instead always wanting and expecting to be reasonable and mature.

* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The theme song for the Japanese release of the film is titled [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3iuw9t "Kidzukazu Sugita Hatsukoi"]] by Yumi Matsutoya.

** Spending time with the little prince, the narrator realizes that he 'himself' has lost his own imagination as well.

* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Played with. The Snake is seen as evil by the narrator, but not by the Little Prince: [[spoiler:"You have good poison? You are sure that it will not make me suffer too long?"]]

* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The theme song for the Japanese release of the film is titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W2w9cfUoPY "Kidzukazu Sugita Hatsukoi"]] by Yumi Matsutoya.

->''"Goodbye," said the fox. "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."''

Not in any way a SpearCounterpart to ''Literature/ALittlePrincess''.

Adaptations have mostly been for the stage, but there's also a 1974 movie musical and a 1979 Claymation short. It also inspired an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_the_Little_Prince_(TV_series) anime]], a 2010 [[WesternAnimation/TheLittlePrince CGI cartoon]] airing on French TV, and a [[WesternAnimation/TheLittlePrince2015 full-length animated movie]] in 2015.

A worldwide literary classic (it's been translated into 190 languages), '''''The Little Prince''''' (''Le Petit Prince'' in French) is a 1943 children's book written and illustrated by French aviator and count Creator/AntoineDeSaintExupery. It is the fictional account of a [[AuthorAvatar French aviator]] whose plane crashes in the Sahara desert, a thousand miles from civilization. While trying to fix his plane and expecting to die of thirst within days, he is approached by a young boy who requests that he draw him a sheep. The rest of the story is mostly about the boy (thereafter referred to as the little prince) relating to the narrator his life on an asteroid and his travels from planet to planet in search of the meaning of life. While the Prince talks, the narrator continues to work on his plane.

!!''Le Petit Prince'' provides examples of the following tropes:

A worldwide literary classic (it's been translated into 190 languages), ''The Little Prince'' (''Le Petit Prince'' in French) is a 1943 children's book written and illustrated by French aviator and count Creator/AntoineDeSaintExupery. It is the fictional account of a [[AuthorAvatar French aviator]] whose plane crashes in the Sahara desert, a thousand miles from civilization. While trying to fix his plane and expecting to die of thirst within days, he is approached by a young boy who requests that he draw him a sheep. The rest of the story is mostly about the boy (thereafter referred to as the little prince) relating to the narrator his life on an asteroid and his travels from planet to planet in search of the meaning of life. While the Prince talks, the narrator continues to work on his plane.

Adaptations have mostly been for the stage, but there's also a 1974 movie musical and a 1979 Claymation short. It also inspired an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_the_Little_Prince_(TV_series) anime]]. There is also a 2010 [[WesternAnimation/TheLittlePrince CGI cartoon]], airing on French TV. There is also a [[WesternAnimation/TheLittlePrince2015 full-length animated movie]] in 2015.

* AuthorAvatar

* BabyPlanet
* BittersweetEnding

* CanonIllustrations: notably the sheep, the author's "drawing number 1" and "2", and the desert landscape in the epilogue.

* ChildrenAreInnocent

* ConstantlyCurious
* CryingLittleKid

* {{Defictionalized}}: "B612" is not a valid asteroid designation; however, an asteroid now exists named 46610 Bésixdouze ("B612" in French) and the asteroid 45 Eugenia now has a moon named "Petit-Prince".

* LiteraryAgentHypothesis
* LoveHurts: And how.

* SomethingAboutARose
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: The Prince.
* {{Tsundere}}: The Rose.

* NamelessNarrative:
** None of the characters in the story have names, including the {{Narrator}},[[note]]Implied to be Saint-Exupéry himself[[/note]] the rose, the fox and the title character.
** This is also played in TheFilmOfTheBook; nearly all of the exclusive characters in the film's FramingDevice (e.g. the Girl, The Mother and the Aviator) are nameless. [[spoiler:Subverted by one character at the last third of the film: Mr. Prince, who is the Little Prince, but adult and stripped of his original identity.]]

Adaptations have mostly been for the stage, but there's also a 1974 movie musical and a 1979 Claymation short. It also inspired an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_the_Little_Prince_(TV_series) anime]]. There is also a 2010 [[WesternAnimation/TheLittlePrince CGI cartoon]], airing on French TV. There is also a [[WesternAnimation/TheLittlePrince2015 full-length animated movie]].

Adaptations have mostly been for the stage, but there's also a 1974 movie musical and a 1979 Claymation short. It also inspired an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_the_Little_Prince_(TV_series) anime]]. There is also a 2010 [[WesternAnimation/TheLittlePrince CGI cartoon]], airing on French TV.

The book has been adapted into a full-length animated movie. On an interesting note, the concept art was done by Thurop van Orman, the director of ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack''. A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIAbFrMIVbo french trailer]] and an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaCkGiHgOZA international trailer]] have been released. The film was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2015 and was released in France in July 2015. It will be released in the U.S. in March 2016.

The book has been adapted into a full-length animated movie. On an interesting note, the concept art was done by Thurop van Orman, the director of ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack''. So far, there has been a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIAbFrMIVbo french trailer]] and an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaCkGiHgOZA international trailer]] released.

* NamelessNarrative: None of the characters in the story have names, including the {{Narrator}},[[note]]Implied to be Saint-Exupéry himself[[/note]] the rose, the fox and the title character. This is also played in TheFilmOfTheBook; nearly all of the exclusive characters in the film's FramingDevice (e.g. the Girl, The Mother and the Aviator) are nameless. [[spoiler:Subverted by one character at the last third of the film: Mr. Prince, who is the Little Prince, but adult and stripped of his original identity.]]

* NamelessNarrative: None of the characters in the story have names, including the {{Narrator}},[[note]]Implied to be Saint-Exupéry himself[[/note]] the rose, the fox and the title character.
** Also played in TheFilmOfTheBook; Nearly all of the exclusive characters in the film's FramingDevice (e.g. the Girl, The Mother and the Aviator) are nameless. [[spoiler:Subverted by one character at the last third of the film: Mr. Prince, who is the Little Prince, but adult and stripped of his original identity.]]

** Also played in TheFilmOfTheBook; Nearly all of the exclusive characters of the film's FramingDevice (e.g. the Girl, The Mother and the Aviator) has no names. [[spoiler:Subverted by one character at the last third of the film: Mr. Prince, who is the Little Prince, but adult and stripped of his original identity.]]

** Also played in TheFilmOfTheBook; Nearly all of the exclusive characters of the film's FramingDevice (e.g. the Girl, The Mother and the Aviator) has names. [[spoiler:Subverted by one character at the last third of the film: Mr. Prince, who is the Little Prince, but adult and stripped of his original identity.]]