小王子英文版

And now six years have already gone by… I have never yet told this story. The companions who met me on my return were well content to see me alive....

Beside the well there was the ruin of an old stone wall. When I came back from my work, the next evening, I saw from some distance away my little p...

“Men,” said the little prince, “set out on their way in express trains, but they do not know what they are looking for. Then they...

It was now the eighth day since I had had my accident in the desert, and I had listened to the story of the merchant as I was drinking the last dro...

“Good morning,” said the little prince. “Good morning,” said the merchant. This was a merchant who sold pills that had been...

“Good morning,” said the little prince. “Good morning,” said the railway switchman. “What do you do here?” the ...

It was then that the fox appeared. “Good morning,” said the fox. “Good morning,” the little prince responded politely, a...

But it happened that after walking for a long time through sand, and rocks, and snow, the little prince at last came upon a road. And all roads lea...

After that, the little prince climbed a high mountain. The only mountains he had ever known were the three volcanoes, which came up to his knees. A...

The little prince crossed the desert and met with only one flower. It was a flower with three petals, a flower of no account at all. “Good...

When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wanders a little from the truth. I have not been altogether honest in what I have told you about the ...

So then the seventh planet was the Earth. The Earth is not just an ordinary planet! One can count, there 111 kings (not forgetting, to be sure, the...

The sixth planet was ten times larger than the last one. It was inhabited by an old gentleman who wrote voluminous books. “Oh, look! Her...

The fifth planet was very strange. It was the smallest of all. There was just enough room on it for a street lamp and a lamplighter. The little pr...

The fourth planet belonged to a businessman. This man was so much occupied that he did not even raise his head at the little prince’s arriva...

The next planet was inhabited by a tippler. This was a very short visit, but it plunged the little prince into deep dejection. “What are...

The second planet was inhabited by a conceited man. “Ah! Ah! I am about to receive a visit from an admirer!” he exclaimed from afar, ...

He found himself in the neighborhood of the asteroids 325, 326, 327, 328, 329, and 330. He began, therefore, by visiting them, in order to add to h...

I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds. On the morning of his departure he put his planet in pe...

I soon learned to know this flower better. On the little prince’s planet the flowers had always been very simple. They had only one ring of p...

On the fifth day– again, as always, it was thanks to the sheep– the secret of the little prince’s life was revealed to me. Abrupt...

Oh, little prince! Bit by bit I came to understand the secrets of your sad little life… For a long time you had found your only entertainment in th...

As each day passed I would learn, in our talk, something about the little prince’s planet, his departure from it, his journey. The informatio...

I had thus learned a second fact of great importance: this was that the planet the little prince came from was scarcely any larger than a house! ...

It took me a long time to learn where he came from. The little prince, who asked me so many questions, never seemed to hear the ones I asked him. I...

So I lived my life alone, without anyone that I could really talk to, until I had an accident with my plane in the Desert of Sahara, six years ago....

Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest. It was a picture o...

To Leon Werth I ask the indulgence of the children who may read this book for dedicating it to a grown-up. I have a serious reason: he is the best ...