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Sophie's World A Novel About the History of Philosophy (Fsg Classics) Paperback - 2007

by Jostein Gaarder

A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought. In order to answer two existential questions, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning--but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.


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A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. 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 irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning--but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

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  • Title Sophie's World A Novel About the History of Philosophy (Fsg Classics)
  • Author Jostein Gaarder
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Pages 544
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, New York
  • Date March 20, 2007
  • Features Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780374530716
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Scandinavian

About the author

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 Sophie's World, and several others since then. He lives in Oslo with his family.

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