A child draws a boa constrictor swallowing an elephant.
The grown-ups see a hat.
And with that little misunderstanding, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry opens one of the strangest and most beautiful books of the twentieth century.
This Sunday morning, pull up a chair in The Common Room at the Little Station on Commercial Street as we take a deeper look at The Little Prince.
Why does the Prince’s rose matter more than all the other roses in the world? What does the fox mean when he speaks of being “tamed”? Why are the grown-ups so preoccupied with counting, owning, classifying and being important? And what does a children’s story have to say about loneliness, friendship, responsibility, love—and death?
We’ll also look at the remarkable life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: aviator, writer and wartime pilot—and at the surprising kinship between his vision and G. K. Chesterton’s insistence that the world becomes extraordinary when we learn to look at ordinary things again.
Perhaps The Little Prince isn’t really a children’s book.
Perhaps it’s a book for grown-ups who have forgotten something.
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