Gaarder, Jostein,  1952-, <br/><br/>
Sophie's world :  a novel about the history of philosophy /  [print] 
Jostein Gaarder ; translated by Paulette Mller. 
 - Pbk. edition. 
 - New York :  Farrar, Straus and Giroux,  (c)2007. 
 - xi,  518 pages ;  21 cm. 
 - FSG classics .
 - FSG classics. .
<br/><br/> Includes reader's group guide in back of book. 
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<br/><br/> 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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780374530716 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2006934351 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Philosophy--History--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PT8951.M685.S674 2007 PT8951