Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

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An original and accomplished prose stylist, Antoine de Saint- Exupéry published his first two or three volumes as novels before arriving at his definitive literary form, a combination of essay, memoir, fable, and prose poem that is difficult to classify. To this latter category belong his best-known volumes: an autobiography in the form of a novel, Terre des hommes (1939; Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939); the posthumously published Citadelle (1948; The Wisdom of the Sands, 1950), consisting of philosophical observations and...

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• Wind, Sand and Stars (Juvenile Literature)
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• Wind, Sand and Stars (Character Profiles)
• Wind, Sand and Stars (Literary Places)
• Wisdom of the Sands, The (Masterplots Classics)
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