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Synopsis
When 14-year-old Sophie Amundsen finds two questions in her mailbox: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?", she begins a tour through Western philosophy guided by a mysterious mentor.
| Size | | Height: | 7.3 in | | Width: | 4.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.5 in | | Weight: | 11.2 oz |
Industry Reviews
"This entertainingly framed outline of Western thought--for three years at the top of Norway's best-seller list, and translated as far afield as Brazil and Korea--was written by a former Bergen high-school teacher, and concerns the education of fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen, who turns fifteen, and comes to terms with her status as a fictional character, by the end of the novel."
John Updike
" 'Sophie's World' [is] Gaarder's history of Western philosophy embedded in a science fiction-like novel...[and I can] understand the unusual enthusiasm the book has generated....[In} an entertaining brainteaser of a novel....Sophie thinks like a Platonist in the early part of the course, like an empiricist in the middle, and like an existentialist toward the end."
Spencer
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