A Guide for Grown-ups: Essential Wisdom from the Collected Works of Antoine de Saint-Exupry

This book gathers selected passages from across Saint-Exupéry's writings, arranged to show the ideas that run through his work. Drawing on the novels, memoirs, letters and The Little Prince, it brings together his thoughts on friendship, love, responsibility, courage, solitude and the search for meaning. The extracts are short and can be read in any order, which makes the volume a gentle introduction for readers who know him mainly as the author of one famous fable and wish to see the wider range of his thought.