by Antoine de SaintExupéry
Recommended by 8 notable people, including Meghan Markle and James Clear
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See customer reviews on Amazon →You follow a stranded pilot who meets a tiny prince from another planet. Through the prince's encounters with absurd adults and a fussy rose, the book distills wisdom about connection and loss. It feels like a watercolor daydream—spare prose and delicate illustrations. The useful part is how it resets your sense of what matters. Annoying if you find its earnestness saccharine or the lessons too blatant. The fey tone may wear thin quickly for some.
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Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and Adult,s alike as The Little Prince. Richard Howard's translation of the beloved classic beautifully reflects SaintExupéry's unique and gifted style. Howard, an acclaimed poet and one of the preeminent translators of our time, has excelled in bringing the English text as clo...
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Recommended by 8 sources and appears in Children's, Fantasy, and Fiction.
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Consider The Republic by Plato. Recommended by 13 sources.
“Plato stages an extended Socratic conversation that moves from concrete questions about justice into broad proposals about an ideal city, the structure of the soul, and what counts as reality and knowledge. Reading alternates brisk question-and-answer snippets with long, cumulative demonstrations that reward careful attention and annotation. Main value: a wealth of thought experiments for testing political and ethical intuitions. Main limitation: repetitive refutations, long policy sketches and dense metaphysical passages can feel abstruse and slow; patience and some philosophical background help.”
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