Sophie's world
a novel about the history of philosophy
by Jostein Gaarder
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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, 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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Sophie's world: a novel about the history of philosophy
2002, Berkley Books, Berkley
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Sophie's World
August 11, 1997, Orion Children's Books (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
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Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy
March 1, 1996, Berkley Books
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in English
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Sophie's World
March 4, 1996, Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
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Sophie's World
April 3, 1995, Phoenix/Orion Books Ltd
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in English
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Sufei de shi jie
1995, Zhi ku gu fen you xian gong si
in Chinese
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Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy
1994, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Sophie's world: a novel about the history of philosophy
1994, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Sofies verden: roman om filosofiens historie
1991, Aschehoug
in Norwegian
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Originally published in English: New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, c1994.
Includes index.
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