Sophie's world : a novel about the history of philosophy / Jostein Gaarder ; translated by Paulette Mller. [print]

By:

Gaarder, Jostein, 1952- [Author]

Contributor(s):

Mller, Paulette

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Norwegian Series: FSG classicsPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [(c)2007.Edition: Pbk. edDescription: xi, 518 pages ; 21 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0374530718
9780374530716

Uniform titles:

Sofies verden. English

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

PT8951.17.S674 2007
PT8951.17.A17.M685.S674 2007

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Summary: 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 irrestistible 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 pilosophy she is learning--but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status)	G. Allen Fleece Library Circulating Collection - First Floor	Non-fiction	PT8951.17.A17S6413 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		31923001667381

Includes reader's group guide in back of book.

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 irrestistible 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 pilosophy she is learning--but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

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