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Chapter 1
The narrator, a grown man and pilot, looks back on a drawing he made as a child: a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.
Chapter 2
The narrator's plane breaks down in the Sahara Desert, far from any help. On the first night, a small boy appears out of nowhere and asks him to draw a sheep.
Chapter 3
Through a series of careful questions, the narrator starts to piece together where the little prince came from. The prince asks whether the narrator's plane came from the sky, and…
Chapter 4
The narrator pauses to explain what he knows about the little prince's home, Asteroid B-612. A Turkish astronomer discovered it in 1909 but was ignored because of his clothing.
Chapter 5
The little prince talks about the baobab trees that threaten his small planet. If baobab seedlings are not pulled up every day, they grow enormous and split the planet apart.
Chapter 6
The little prince and the narrator talk about sunsets. The prince reveals that on his tiny planet, he can watch the sun set dozens of times a day just by moving his chair a few st…
Chapter 7
The narrator is struggling with a repair on his plane's engine and is short-tempered. The prince keeps pressing him with a serious question: do sheep eat flowers with thorns?
Chapter 8
The narrator learns how the rose came to be on the prince's planet. She grew from a mysterious seed, spent a long time preparing herself, and then appeared one morning in full blo…
Chapter 9
The prince prepares to leave his planet for good. He cleans out the volcanoes, pulls up the baobab sprouts one last time, and waters the rose.
Chapter 10
The prince begins his journey through space by visiting a series of small planets, each ruled by a single adult. The first planet belongs to a king who insists on absolute authori…
Chapter 11
The little prince visits a planet occupied by a conceited man who wants only to be admired. No matter what the prince says, the man twists it into praise.
Chapter 12
The prince visits a planet with a drunkard who drinks to forget that he is ashamed of drinking. The prince finds this logic circular and sad.
Chapter 13
The prince visits a businessman who is obsessively counting stars because he believes owning them will make him rich.
Chapter 14
The prince visits a tiny planet where a lamplighter lights and extinguishes a lamp every minute because his orders say so, even though the planet now spins so fast that a minute e…
Chapter 15
The prince visits a geographer who records facts about mountains and oceans but has never seen any of them. He relies entirely on explorers to bring him information.
Chapter 16
This chapter is a brief pause in the story where the narrator steps back to note that Earth is not just another planet.
Chapter 17
The Little Prince lands on Earth and is immediately surprised to find it apparently empty. He encounters a snake in the desert, and their conversation is strange and unsettling fr…
Chapter 18
After leaving the snake, the Little Prince crosses the desert and meets a flower with three petals. He asks the flower where the people are, and she says she saw a handful of men…
Chapter 19
The Little Prince climbs a tall mountain, hoping that from the top he will be able to see the whole planet and find people.
Chapter 20
The Little Prince comes across a garden full of roses and is devastated. He had believed his rose was unique in the universe, but here are thousands of flowers just like her.
Chapter 21
The little prince meets the fox, who teaches him what it means to tame something. The fox explains that taming creates a bond that makes another person or creature unique to you,…
Chapter 22
The little prince has a brief exchange with a railway switchman. The switchman manages trains that carry adults rushing from one place to another, though none of them know why the…
Chapter 23
The little prince meets a merchant who sells pills that eliminate thirst. The idea is that people can save fifty-three minutes a week by not having to drink water.
Chapter 24
The narrator and the little prince are now stranded in the desert and running out of water. They decide to walk in search of a well.
Chapter 25
At the well, the prince tells the narrator that his one-year anniversary on Earth is approaching and that he plans to return to his planet.
Chapter 26
The little prince and the narrator find the well in the desert and drink from it. The prince reveals he has made a deal with the snake to be bitten so he can return to his planet…
Chapter 27
Six years after the events in the desert, the narrator reflects on what happened and why it still matters to him. He asks readers who might spot a small laughing boy in the desert…
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