, 482 pages, translated from the Norwegian by Paulette Moller, colour illustrated endpapers

Sophie's World

Gaarder, Jostein

Finding two thought-inducing philosophical questions in her mailbox, Sophie enrolls in a correspondence course with a mysterious philosopher, and begins receiving some equally strange letters. 25,000 first printing.

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

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Contemporary

Farrar Straus & Giroux

Discovering two thought-provoking philosophical questions in her mailbox, Sophie enrolls in a correspondence course with a mysterious philosopher and begins to receive some equally unusual letters. Reprint.

Berkley

A novel about the history of philosophy chronicles the story of a teenaged girl who discovers a mysterious letter in her mailbox and embarks on a journey of philosophical discovery, taking her from Socrates to Sartre and beyond. Reprint.

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

Berkley Trade

When 14-year-old Sophie encounters a mysterious mentor who introduces her to philosophy, mysteries deepen in her own life. Why does she keep getting postcards addressed to another girl? Who is the other girl? And who, for that matter, is Sophie herself?

Turtleback Books

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 strange―but irresistible―beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with these and other questions that explore matters both small and large, some that take her mind far beyond what she knows of her family and life in her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving a separate batch of equally unusual letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up in Sophie's world? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must make use of the philosophy she is learning―but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
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, having been translated into forty-five languages and with over twenty million copies in print.

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

Literary

Macmillan Audio

A comprehensive history of Western philosophy in the form of a novel, this story is framed by a series of letters from a mysterious philosopher to a 14-year-old Norwegian schoolgirl. Fascinating and humorous, it begins with pre-Socratic Greeks and ends with Jean Paul Sartre. 4 cassettes.

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Sophie's World

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

Sophie's World

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

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

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

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

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