Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy (30th Anniversary Edition) by Gaarder, Jostein

Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy (30th Anniversary Edition) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781250860491)

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Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy (30th Anniversary Edition) by Gaarder, Jostein

Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy (30th Anniversary Edition)

$20.00
Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy (30th Anniversary Edition) by Gaarder, Jostein

Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy (30th Anniversary Edition)

$20.00
Format: Paperback
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A brand new 30th anniversary edition of Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World, the wildly popular (over thirty million copies in print!), page-turning novel about a young girl's exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought.

Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World is an exciting coming-of-age novel that thrives on its contradictions. It is a page-turning science fiction adventure as well as a history of Western philosophy--from the discourse of ancient Greece to debates about the Big Bang.

The games begin when fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen finds two notes in her mailbox. One note asks, "Who are you?" The other asks, "Where does the world come from?" From here, with the aid of a devoted but mysterious instructor, Sophie sets off on a fantastic philosophical saga that will take her far beyond her small Norwegian hometown. Letters give way to lectures, questions give way to quests, and the dimensions of Sophie's world (as well as our own) grow ever wider, deeper, and richer.

Author: Jostein Gaarder
ISBN-10: 1250860490
ISBN-13: 9781250860491
Publisher: Picador USA
Language: English
Published: 10/29/2024
Pages: 544
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.3
Point Value: 29
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 42976 / Sophie's World
By Jostein Gaarder
By Jostein Gaarder
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Jostein Gaarder was born in Oslo, Norway, in 1952. He taught high-school philosophy for several years before publishing a collection of short stories in 1986 and, shortly thereafter, his first two novels, The Solitaire Mystery and Sophie's World, and several others since then. He lives in Oslo with his family.

Rivka Galchen received her MD from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, having spent a year in South America working on public health issues. Galchen completed her MFA at Columbia University, where she was a Robert Bingham Fellow. Her essay on the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics was published in The Believer, and she is the recipient of a 2006 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. Galchen lives in New York City. She is the author of the novel Atmospheric Disturbances.

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