Further Reading
- "Adult Fairy Tale," Time XLI, No. 17 (26 April 1943): 100. (Characterizes The Little Prince as a challenging work for adults.)
- Arnold, James W., "Musical Fantasy: The Little Prince," in Shadows of the Magic Lamp: Fantasy and Science Fiction in Film, edited by George Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1985, pp. 122-40. (Summarizes the plot of The Little Prince and discusses director Stanley Donen's film adaptation of the novel.)
- Balakian, Nona, "Poet of the Air—and Earth: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry," in her Critical Encounters: Literary Views and Reviews, 1953-1977, New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1978, pp. 142-45. (Overview of Saint-Exupéry's career with brief commentary on The Little Prince.)
- Cate, Curtis, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: His Life and Time, New York: Putnam, 1970, 608 p. (Detailed overview of Saint-Exupéry's life.)
- Review of The Little Prince, Commonweal XXXVII, No. 26 (16 April 1943): 644-45. (Compares The Little Prince to the works of eighteenth-century French moralists, but calls the book more "witty, revolutionary and cerebral.")
- Rumbold, Richard, and Stewart, Lady Margaret, The Winged Life: A Portrait of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Poet and Airman, New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 224 p. (Biographical study emphasizing Saint-Exupéry's aviation experiences.)
- Sherman, Beatrice, "A Prince of Lonely Space," The New York Times Book Review (11 April 1943): 9. (Favorable review of The Little Prince.)
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