Sophie's World
A Novel About the History of Philosophy
Gaarder, Jostein
Vance, Simon
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BOOK SUMMARY
A classic page-turner that explores what it means to live in our modern world, available for the first time as an audiobook
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One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: Who are you? and Where does the world come from? From that strange--but irresistible--beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with these and other questions that explore matters both small and large, some that take her mind far beyond what she knows of her family and life in her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving a separate batch of equally unusual letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up in Sophie's world? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must make use of the philosophy she is learning--but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, having been translated into forty-five languages and with over twenty million copies in print.
AUTHOR BIO
Jostein Gaarder was born in Oslo, Norway, in 1952. He taught high school philosophy for several years, before publishing a collection of short stories in 1986 and, shortly thereafter, his first two novels, The Solitaire Mystery and Sophies World, and several others since then. He lives in Oslo with his family.
BOOK REVIEWS
Praise for Sophie's World:
"Extraordinary&read it for yourself."--Newsweek
"A simply wonderful, irresistible book...a cross between Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy and Alice in Wonderland."--Daily Telegraph
"Sophie's World is sheer delight. How I wish I'd had it during my college freshman survey of philosophy!"--Madeleine L'Engle
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1427200874
ISBN(13-digit): 9781427200877
Dewey Decimal: 839.8/2374
Library of Congress: bl2007004769
Book Publisher: St Martins Pr
Language: ENG
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