日期：2016-08-18 Fern loved Wilbur more than anything. She loved to stroke him, to feed him, to put him to bed. Every morning, as soon as she got up, she warmed his milk, tied his bib on, and held the bottle for him. Every afternoon, when the school bus stopped in f... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-08-18 Wheres Papa going with the ax? said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast. Out to the hoghouse, replied Mrs. Arable. Some pigs were born last night. I dont see why he needs an ax, continued Fern, who was only eight. Well, s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-08-18 When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wanders a little from the truth. I have not been altogether honest in what I have told you about the lamplighters. And I realize that I run the risk of giving a false idea of our planet to those who do n... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-08-18 So then the seventh planet was the Earth. The Earth is not just an ordinary planet! One can count, there 111 kings (not forgetting, to be sure, the Negro kings among them), 7000 geographers, 900,000 businessmen, 7,500,000 tipplers, 311,000,000 conce... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-08-18 The sixth planet was ten times larger than the last one. It was inhabited by an old gentleman who wrote voluminous books. Oh, look! Here is an explorer! he exclaimed to himself when he saw the little prince coming. The little prince sat down on the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-08-18 The fifth planet was very strange. It was the smallest of all. There was just enough room on it for a street lamp and a lamplighter. The little prince was not able to reach any explanation of the use of a street lamp and a lamplighter, somewhere in... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-07-11 The fourth planet belonged to a businessman. This man was so much occupied that he did not even raise his head at the little princes arrival. Good morning, the little prince said to him. Your cigarette has gone out. Three and two make five. Five and... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-07-11 The next planet was inhabited by a tippler. This was a very short visit, but it plunged the little prince into deep dejection. What are you doing there? he said to the tippler, whom he found settled down in silence before a collection of empty bottl... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-07-11 The second planet was inhabited by a conceited man. Ah! Ah! I am about to receive a visit from an admirer! he exclaimed from afar, when he first saw the little prince coming. For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers. Good morning, said the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-07-11 He found himself in the neighborhood of the asteroids 325, 326, 327, 328, 329, and 330. He began, therefore, by visiting them, in order to add to his knowledge. The first of them was inhabited by a king. Clad in royal purple and ermine, he was seate... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-07-11 I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds. On the morning of his departure he put his planet in perfect order. He carefully cleaned out his active volcanoes. He possessed two active volcanoes; and they... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-07-11 I soon learned to know this flower better. On the little princes planet the flowers had always been very simple. They had only one ring of petals; they took up no room at all; they were a trouble to nobody. One morning they would appear in the grass... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-07-11 On the fifth day-- again, as always, it was thanks to the sheep-- the secret of the little princes life was revealed to me. Abruptly, without anything to lead up to it, and as if the question had been born of long and silent meditation on his proble... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-07-11 Oh, little prince! Bit by bit I came to understand the secrets of your sad little life For a long time you had found your only entertainment in the quiet pleasure of looking at the sunset. I learned that new detail on the morning of the fourth day,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-07-11 As each day passed I would learn, in our talk, something about the little princes planet, his departure from it, his journey. The information would come very slowly, as it might chance to fall from his thoughts. It was in this way that I heard, on t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-07-11 I had thus learned a second fact of great importance: this was that the planet the little prince came from was scarcely any larger than a house! But that did not really surprise me much. I knew very well that in addition to the great planets-- such... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-07-11 It took me a long time to learn where he came from. The little prince, who asked me so many questions, never seemed to hear the ones I asked him. It was from words dropped by chance that, little by little, everything was revealed to me. The first ti... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-07-11 So I lived my life alone, without anyone that I could really talk to, until I had an accident with my plane in the Desert of Sahara, six years ago. Something was broken in my engine. And as I had with me neither a mechanic nor any passengers, I set... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-07-11 I ask the indulgence of the children who may read this book for dedicating it to a grown-up. I have a serious reason: he is the best friend I have in the world. I have another reason: this grown-up understands everything, even books about children.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-07-08 A few months ago I was nominated for Governor of the great state of New York, to run against Mr. John T. Smith and Mr. Blank J. Blank on an independent ticket. I somehow felt that I had one prominent advantage over these gentlemen, and that was--goo... 阅读全文>>