The protagonist of the book is a little prince from an alien planet. The book uses a pilot as the storyteller, telling the various adventures that the little prince went through when he set off from his planet to the earth. With a childlike vision of the little prince, the author sees through the emptiness, blindness, foolishness and rigid dogma of adults, and writes the loneliness and loneliness of mankind and the destiny of wandering with the wind without foundation in simple and naive language.

the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me... It was close to midnight before Major Albert Knag called home to wish Hilde a happy birthday. Hilde's mother answered the telephone.I think there's one more birthday greeting to come. But that one is set to music." "I'd better read a little more before I go to sleep." "You haven't given up, then?" "I've learned more in this one day than ever before. I can hardly believe that it's less than twenty-four hours since Sophie got home from school and found the first envelope."