{"type":"rich","asset_type":"article","version":"1.0","title":"COVER STORY; A Prince Eternal (Published 2005)","summary":"IN 1941, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, a French pilot and writer who had exiled himself to New York after his homeland had surrendered to the Nazis during World War II, settled into a top-floor aerie on Central Park South and began to write. ''Flight to Arras,'' a recollection of a reconnaissance mission he undertook as the fall of France became imminent, appeared in 1942. It was followed, in early 1943, by ''Letter to a Hostage,'' dedicated to the 40 million French held captive by the Germans.    Then, two months later, an aberration. Reynal \u0026 Hitchcock published ''The Little Prince,'' a poetic short story written and illustrated by Saint-Exupéry about a boy from a far-off planet with a halo of golden curls and an overreaching love for a rose. In it, the boy teaches the secret of what is important in life to a pilot who has crash-landed in the Sahara.  ","author_name":"By Kathryn Shattuck","publication_date":"April 3, 2005","url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/arts/television/cover-story-a-prince-eternal.html","cache_age":86400,"provider_name":"The New York Times","provider_url":"https://www.nytimes.com","html":"\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.nytimes.com/svc/oembed/html/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2005%2F04%2F03%2Farts%2Ftelevision%2Fcover-story-a-prince-eternal.html\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" title=\"COVER STORY; A Prince Eternal\" style=\"border:none;max-width:500px;min-width:300px;min-height:550px;display:block;width:100%;\"\u003e\u003c/iframe\u003e","width":300,"height":550,"thumbnail_credit":"","thumbnail_url":"https://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/12/09/us/Tlogo-news-black-on-white/Tlogo-news-black-on-white-mediumThreeByTwo440.png","thumbnail_width":440,"thumbnail_height":293}