One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home to find two notes in her mail asking, "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" which lead her to ponder the great questions of Western philosophy. Before she knows it, she is enrolled in a correspondence course, covering Socrates
Sophie-s World: A Novel About The History Of Philosophy
โ Scribed by Jostein Gaarder
- Publisher
- BERKLEY BOOKS, NEW YORK
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 271 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780425152256
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