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Sophie's World

Autor Jostein Gaarder
en Limba Engleză Paperback – sep 2003 – vârsta de la 12 ani
'A simply wonderful, irresistible book' DAILY TELEGRAPH

'A terrifically entertaining and imaginative story wrapped round its tough, thought-provoking philosophical heart' DAILY MAIL

'Remarkable ... an extraordinary achievement' SUNDAY TIMES

When 14-year-old Sophie encounters a mysterious mentor who introduces her to philosophy, mysteries deepen in her own life. Why does she keep getting postcards addressed to another girl? Who is the other girl? And who, for that matter, is Sophie herself? To solve the riddle, she uses her new knowledge of philosophy, but the truth is far stranger than she could have imagined.

A phenomenal worldwide bestseller, SOPHIE'S WORLD sets out to draw teenagers into the world of Socrates, Descartes, Spinoza, Hegel and all the great philosophers. A brilliantly original and fascinating story with many twists and turns, it raises profound questions about the meaning of life and the origin of the universe.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781858815305
ISBN-10: 1858815304
Pagini: 496
Ilustrații: Black and White 2
Dimensiuni: 134 x 195 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Orion Publishing Group
Colecția W&N
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Recenzii

A simply wonderful, irresistible book
A unique popular classic
A marvellously rich book. Its success boils down to something quite simple - Gaarder's gift for communicating ideas
Remarkable . . . What Jostein Gaarder has managed to do is condense 3,000 years of thought into 400 pages; to simplify some extremely complicated arguments without trivialising them . . . An extraordinary achievement
Challenging, informative and packed with easily grasped, and imitable, ways of thinking about difficult ideas
A whimsical and ingenious mystery novel that also happens to be a history of philosophy . . . What is admirable in the novel is the utter unpretentiousness of the philosophical lessons . . . manages to deliver Western philosophy in accounts that are crystal clear
A terrifically entertaining and imaginative story wrapped round its tough, thought-provoking philosophical heart

Notă biografică

Jostein Gaarder was born in Oslo, Norway, in 1952. He taught high-school philosophy for several years before publishing a collection of short stories in 1986 and, shortly thereafter, his first two novels, The Solitaire Mystery and Sophie’s World, and several others since then. He lives in Oslo with his family.