Sophie's World

ByJostein Gaarder & Paulette Møller

Release Date: 2007-03-20
Genre: Literary Fiction

Score: 4.5

4.5

From 129 Ratings

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.

Reviews

Life changing
5
By Keko79
This book changes the life of who reads it at the same time as you ask your self every question the books ask
An Excellent Start
5
By WcSleeve
This book was chosen by my book club group (a group of four, grade 7 girls). Not only were they engaged in the conversations but were inspired to think more deeply about their world, their choices, and their influences. Furthermore, the rhetorical choices made in the story was masterful, at times. The author was clever enough to be able to write some of the logic and the concepts into the rhetoric, further illustrating the ideologies.

As an English teacher, I am so happy to have been given such a nice text to work with and such an engaging text to inspire my students with.
SO GOOD
5
By REROOBIEBER
I don’t get why are people hating on it in the comments. It’s a really fun, good, book to read. And it really helped me with school, although i didn’t even think about school when purchasing/reading it.
TRASH
1
By ruiruirui130
Why do ppl like it LUL
Love ❤️
5
By (Yearwood)
I had to read this for school and I actually really liked it. Although Sophie is very annoying it is a good read.
Hated it
1
By Naveen C
This book was them ost annoying book I had every read, unless you’re a philosopher..AVOID AT ALL COSTS!
Missing!
1
By K1551
Many chapters are missing from this download! Ruined a good book
Love It
5
By Karmsa
Great book, makes learning philosophy fun!!
Excellent intro for young minds!
5
By JediMo
I loved this book. It was a magnificent journey through western history and thought. It's intrigue made me want to expand on all the thought that we're presented here. Isn't that the ultimate goal of any book?
Amazing read
5
By Michelley!
This is one of my favorite books ever. I read in for my senior AP English class and it just blew my mind. Everybody loved it just as much as I did. Gaarder gives his readers the general time line of philosophy and applies/demonstrates these philosophies through the plot. I wish there was a way that my hard copy could come with a digital download of this book, like those blu ray movies, so that I could have this book on my iPhone and read it whenever I can't have my book.