![]() ![]() ![]() Saint-Exupéry often wrote late into the night, a cigarette in his mouth and a cup of coffee or tea on hand. ![]() The Morgan manuscript of The Little Prince is an extraordinary physical record of the author’s creative labor. They reveal the stops and starts, decisions and excisions Saint-Exupéry made as he created what has become one of the world’s favorite books. The bulk of the surviving working manuscript pages and preliminary drawings for The Little Prince are in the Morgan’s collection and presented here. In 1942, at the height of the Second World War, he crafted a tale about an interstellar traveler in search of friendship and understanding. How does a story begin? French author and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944) came to New York in 1940, a few months after Germany invaded France. ![]()
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