In this novel,the storyteller is a pilot. In the very beginning of the story he told the readers that he could not find anyone to talk with happily in the adults world because the adults were too practical.And then the pilot told us how 6 years before he was forced to land his plane by mechanical problems in the Sahara and met the little prince there. That mystery little prince came from another planet. The pilot recalled the little prince and his roses; why he left his own planet; how many planets he had visited before he arrived in the Earth. The pilot retailed the little prince's adventures in 6 planets: he had met a king, a vainglorious man, a tippler, a businessman, a lamplighter, a geographer, a snake, a desert flower with 3 petals, a rose garden, a railway switchman, a merchant, a fox and our storyteller the pilot himself.The pilot and the little prince had a most precious friendship in the desert. When the little prince left the Earth, the pilot was very sad. Becasue of that he always missed the time they shared together, so he wrote this novel in order to commemorate the little prince.英文版的小王子用的詞是a conceited man.