Sophie's World View Online By Jostein Gaarder
| Title | : | Sophie's World |
| Author | : | Jostein Gaarder |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Page | : | 518 pages |
| ISBN | : | 0374530718 |
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 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 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 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 complicated than she could have imagined
about Author
Jostein Gaarder is a Norwegian intellectual and author of several novels, short stories and children s books Gaarder often writes from the perspective of children, exploring their sense of wonder about the world He often uses metafiction in his works, writing stories within stories.Gaarder was born into a pedagogical family His best known work is the novel Sophie s World, subtitled A Novel abou Jostein Gaarder is a Norwegian intellectual and author of several novels, short stories and children s books Gaarder often writes from the perspective of children, exploring their sense of wonder about the world He often uses metafiction in his works, writing stories within stories.Gaarder was born into a pedagogical family His best known work is the novel Sophie s World, subtitled A Novel about the History of Philosophy This popular work has been translated into fifty three languages there are over thirty million copies in print, with three million copies sold in Germany alone.In 1997, he established the Sophie Prize together with his wife Siri Dannevig This prize is an international environment and development prize USD 100,000 77,000 , awarded annually It is named after the novel.http us.macmillan.com author jostei 
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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 imaginati
518 pagesJostein Gaarder
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