Sophie's World
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4.4 • 22 Ratings
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- $24.99
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- $24.99
Publisher Description
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more 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 more complicated than she could have imagined.
Customer Reviews
I would recommend this to Big-Thinkers
It’s not bad, it’s given me an idea of how we exist and we all think about it and helps us a bit. But I have been having the problem with the thought of death and I having to figuring out right a way so my father bought this Audiobook. A thanks to the writer and everyone
What a Trip
This book has some really strange parts to the plot, but it’s still well worth the read. It will definitely get you thinking in different ways. This is a book that certainly harbours open mindedness and free thinking, even rejection of parents’ ideas and beliefs without proper examination, so I can certainly see why this book has been banned and challenged by some groups.