Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder
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Sophie's World
- A Novel About the History of Philosophy
- By: Jostein Gaarder
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 16 hrs and 53 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction
Publisher's Summary
One day, 14-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find two notes in her mailbox, 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.
A pause-resisting novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Sophie's World has fired the imagination of listeners all over the world, having been translated into 45 languages and with over 20 million copies in print.
©1991 H. Aschelhoug and Co. (W. Nygaard), Oslo. Translation 1994 Paulette Moller (P)2007 Audio Renaissance, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC
Variety
Buggy file
I got this book in hard copy to reference in further research, as this is philosophy 101 nestled in a story.
I had to refer to the book to figure out what was going on in a couple of sections because the file jumped.
In one instance it missed 3 lines and that changed the whole context because they had moved in those lines.
In another the file jumped forward a chapter and then jumped back to where it had jumped from.
Filed a bug report but yet to be resolved
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Tiit Pähn
My favourite book by far
This book should be in every home to help people to understand their world better
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