num_pages: 518
description: A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, 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.
language: English
title: Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy
titlecomplete: Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy
characters: David Hume, Socrates (philosopher), Karl Marx, Plato, Cecilia Skotbu, Malaikat Ariel, René Descartes, George Berkeley, Sofie Amundsen, Jorunn, Jesus, Charles Darwin, Immanuel Kant, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Aquinas, John Locke, Aristotle (philosopher), St. Augustine, Baruch Spinoza
genres: Unfinished, Philosophy, Novels, Scandinavian Literature, Young Adult, Literature, Fantasy, Classics, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 252178
places: Norway
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Buxtehuder Bulle, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Premio Bancarella, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
category: Jugendbuch, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Prix des libraires du Québec
category: Lauréats hors Québec, name: دار المنى, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Literaturpreis der Jury der jungen Leser
category: Jugendbuch, name: Prime Minister of Pakistan's Award
category: Literature, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Premio San Clemente Rosalía-Abanca
category: Lingua estranxeira
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux