Sophie's World (Norwegian: Sofies verden) is a 1991 novel by Norwegian writer Jostein Gaarder. It follows Sophie Amundsen, a Norwegian teenager, who is introduced to the history of philosophy as she is asked "Who are you?" in a letter from an unknown philosopher. The nonfictional content of the book aligns …
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Sophie's World (Norwegian: Sofies verden) is a 1991 novel by Norwegian writer Jostein Gaarder. It follows Sophie Amundsen, a Norwegian teenager, who is introduced to the history of philosophy as she is asked "Who are you?" in a letter from an unknown philosopher. The nonfictional content of the book aligns with Bertrand Russell's The History of Western Philosophy.Sophie's World became a best-seller in Norway and won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1994. The English translation was published in 1995, and the book was reported to be the best-selling book in the world that year. By 2011, the novel had been translated into fifty-nine languages, with over forty million print copies sold. It is one of the most commercially successful Norwegian novels outside of Norway, and has been adapted into a film and a PC game.
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Sophie's World
403 pages
English language
Published March 9, 1995
- ISBN:
- 978-1-85799-328-8Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 10959
Sofies Welt. Roman über die Geschichte der Philosophie
German language
Published March 9, 1993 by Carl Hanser Verlag.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-446-17347-7Copied ISBN!
Le monde de Sophie
French language
Published March 9, 2002 by Éditions du Seuil.
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- 978-2-02-055076-5Copied ISBN!
Sofian maailma : romaani filosofian historiasta
608 pages
Finnish language
Published March 9, 1994
- ISBN:
- 978-951-31-0373-6Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 2612565
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