
Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy (FSG Classics)
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A page-turning novel as well as an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Sophie's World has fired the imaginations of readers all over the world. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, each with a question: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From this irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through successive letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while also 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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ISBN: 9780374530716
Published Date: December 19, 2007
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Language: English
Page Count: 518
Size: 8.32" l x 5.44" w x 0.99" h
Category
Fiction
Subject
Literary