Sophie's world : a novel about the history of philosophy

Gaarder, Jostein 1952- (Author). Møller, Paulette. (Translator). Amazon.com (Firm) (Added Author).

Summary: 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

Record details

ISBN: 9780374530716
ISBN: 0374530718
ISBN: 1466804270
ISBN: 9781466804272
Physical Description: 1 online resource (544 pages)
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Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux : Sold by Macmillan, 2007.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Includes index. Includes Reader's group guide.
Source of Description Note:	Title and description from Amazon.com product webpage with preview (viewed March 7, 2013).