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Sophie's World

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  • Dec 5, 1991
  • #Philosophy
Jostein Gaarder
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An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "... Show More

An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here

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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Number of Pages: 403

ISBN: 1857993284

ISBN-13: 9781857993288

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Alex Wieckowski @AlexAndBooks_ · Sep 26, 2021
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Sophie's World from when I was young but it forever stayed my fav
a16z @a16z · Jul 9, 2022
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Flush with secretive letters, nostalgic analogies, and alter egos, this exploration into fantasy is both lighthearted and substantive.
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