Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy

A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein...
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Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy by Gaarder, Jostein

Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy

$28.07

Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy

$28.07
Author: Jostein Gaarder
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.

Author: Jostein Gaarder
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 03/20/2007
Pages: 544
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.50w x 1.25d
ISBN: 9780374530716

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.3
Point Value: 29
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 42976 / Sophie's World

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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