Sophie's World : A Novel about the History of Philosophy Jostein

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Type
Novel
Publication Name
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN
9780374530716
Book Title
Sophie's World : a Novel about the History of Philosophy
Book Series
Fsg Classics Ser.
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Item Length
8.3 in
Publication Year
2007
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
0.9 in
Author
Jostein Gaarder
Genre
Fiction
Topic
General, Literary
Item Weight
14.1 Oz
Item Width
5.7 in
Number of Pages
544 Pages

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Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374530718
ISBN-13
9780374530716
eBay Product ID (ePID)
56904028

Product Key Features

Book Title
Sophie's World : a Novel about the History of Philosophy
Number of Pages
544 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, Literary
Publication Year
2007
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Author
Jostein Gaarder
Book Series
Fsg Classics Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
14.1 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
5.7 in

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Trade
LCCN
2006-934351
Reviews
"First, think a beginner's guide to philosophy . . . Next, imagine a fantasy novel-something like a modern-day version of Through the Looking Glass . Meld these disparate genres, and what do you get? Well, what you get is an improbable international bestseller . . . [A] tour de force." - Time "This book contains a novel mantra for those days when the world gets in your face."- Entertainment Weekly "Extraordinary…read it for yourself."- Newsweek "A simply wonderful, irresistible book...a cross between Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy and Alice in Wonderland ."- Daily Telegraph " Sophie's World is sheer delight. How I wish I'd had it during my college freshman survey of philosophy!"-Madeleine L'Engle, First, think a beginner's guide to philosophy . . . Next, imagine a fantasy novel--something like a modern-day version of Through the Looking Glass . Meld these disparate genres, and what do you get? Well, what you get is an improbable international bestseller . . . [A] tour de force., "First, think a beginner's guide to philosophy . . . Next, imagine a fantasy novel--something like a modern-day version of Through the Looking Glass . Meld these disparate genres, and what do you get? Well, what you get is an improbable international bestseller . . . [A] tour de force." -- Time "This book contains a novel mantra for those days when the world gets in your face." -- Entertainment Weekly "Extraordinary...read it for yourself." -- Newsweek "A simply wonderful, irresistible book...a cross between Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy and Alice in Wonderland ." -- Daily Telegraph " Sophie's World is sheer delight. How I wish I'd had it during my college freshman survey of philosophy!" -- Madeleine L'Engle, A simply wonderful, irresistible book...a cross between Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy and Alice in Wonderland ., "The editors of this volume should be credited for presenting a high-quality collection of papers contributed by scholars active in pragmatics studies. The value of this volume lies in inviting the reader to rethink some of the key aspects of pragmatics that are so essential to human interaction and mutual understanding. This volume should be of great value to anyone interested in pragmatics."Chaoqun Xie and Juliane House in: Pragmatics & Cognition 17:2/2009 "All in all, the 'explorations' live up to the promise in the title: they offer not a specialist morsel but a wide horizon, depicted in most contributions in a precise and principled way a welcome venture in the times of the compartmentalization of pragmatic research. The papers are thought provoking to various degrees and contentious to various degrees but all are worth reading. The book is also the first volume in a new Mouton Series in Pragmatics edited by Istvan Kecskes and a successful springboard for what is to come."Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt in: Multilingua 2/2008, Sophie's World is sheer delight. How I wish I'd had it during my college freshman survey of philosophy!, "First, think a beginner's guide to philosophy . . . Next, imagine a fantasy novel--something like a modern-day version of Through the Looking Glass . Meld these disparate genres, and what do you get? Well, what you get is an improbable international bestseller . . . [A] tour de force." -- Time, "First, think a beginner's guide to philosophy . . . Next, imagine a fantasy novel--something like a modern-day version of "Through the Looking Glass." Meld these disparate genres, and what do you get? Well, what you get is an improbable international bestseller . . . ÝA¨ tour de force." --"Time", "First, think a beginner's guide to philosophy . . . Next, imagine a fantasy novel-something like a modern-day version ofThrough the Looking Glass. Meld these disparate genres, and what do you get? Well, what you get is an improbable international bestseller . . . [A] tour de force." -Time
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
839.82/374
Synopsis
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., 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., A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought. In order to answer two existential questions, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning--but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
LC Classification Number
PT8951.17.A17S6413

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    The book has a nice starting to catch the reader attention and it's definitely a nice reading for people who wants to read something different or really want to give baby steps into Philosophy. I love reading about Philosophy and I decided to buy this book to let my kids to read it and see if they like those kind of topics.

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    Nice Way of narration of Philosophy in a story mode.

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