Sophie's World - Softcover

Jostein Gaarder

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857993284 ISBN 13: 9781857993288

Publisher: Phoenix/Orion Books Ltd, 1995

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One day Sophie comes home from school to find two questions in her mailbox: who are you and where do you come from? This is the start of Sophie's adventure in philosophy - from the Greeks to Descartes, from Spinoza to Hegel, Marx and Freud - with a mysterious mentor whose identity is unknown.

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Review:

Wanting to understand the most fundamental questions of the universe isn't the province of ivory-tower intellectuals alone, as this book's enormous popularity has demonstrated. A young girl, Sophie, becomes embroiled in a discussion of philosophy with a faceless correspondent. At the same time, she must unravel a mystery involving another young girl, Hilde, by using everything she's learning. The truth is far more complicated than she could ever have imagined.

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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