Books Like The Little Prince for Adults: 6 Fables That Grow Up With You
The Little Prince reads differently at forty than at eight. These short, luminous books are wisdom fables for grown-up readers: simple on the surface, and deep underneath.
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1. Whispers Beneath The Banyan On this site
by Simran Mehta
A child, an ancient tree and a village that learns to listen. A gentle fable about where wisdom really lives.
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2. Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
A young man leaves everything to find enlightenment and learns it from a river.
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3. The Prophet
by Kahlil Gibran
A departing sage answers a town's questions about love, work, children and death.
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4. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
by Charlie Mackesy
Four friends, a few hundred words and ink drawings. The closest modern relative.
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5. Jonathan Livingston Seagull
by Richard Bach
A gull who wants to fly for its own sake. A short parable about freedom and practice.
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6. Einstein's Dreams
by Alan Lightman
Thirty imagined worlds, each with a different law of time. Small chapters, big questions.