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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El Mundo de Sofia
Paperback, 584 pages
Spanish language
Published Nov. 1, 2020 by Ediciones Siruela.
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- 978-84-7844-322-2Copied ISBN!
Sophie's World
403 pages
English language
Published Dec. 16, 1995
- ISBN:
- 978-1-85799-328-8Copied ISBN!
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Sophie's World
English language
Published Dec. 16, 2002
- ISBN:
- 978-0-425-15225-6Copied ISBN!
Sophie's World
English language
Published Dec. 16, 1995
- ISBN:
- 978-1-85799-291-5Copied ISBN!
Sofies värld
Swedish language
Published Dec. 16, 2008
- ISBN:
- 978-91-29-66951-0Copied ISBN!
Sofies Welt
German language
Published Dec. 16, 1999
- ISBN:
- 978-3-423-62000-0Copied ISBN!
Il mondo di Sofia
Italian language
Published Dec. 16, 2017
- ISBN:
- 978-88-502-4763-9Copied ISBN!
Le monde de Sophie
French language
Published Dec. 16, 2002 by Éditions du Seuil.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-02-055076-5Copied ISBN!
Світ Софії
Ukrainian language
Published Dec. 16, 2007
- ISBN:
- 978-966-7007-03-4Copied ISBN!
Le monde de Sophie
French language
Published Dec. 31, 1995
- ISBN:
- 978-2-02-021949-5Copied ISBN!
O Mundo de Sofia
Portuguese language
- ISBN:
- 978-85-359-2189-2Copied ISBN!
Sofian maailma : romaani filosofian historiasta
Finnish language
Published Dec. 16, 1994
- ISBN:
- 978-951-31-0373-6Copied ISBN!
Le monde de Sophie
French language
Published Dec. 16, 2020
- ISBN:
- 978-2-7578-8333-4Copied ISBN!
Le monde de Sophie
French language
- ISBN:
- 978-2-286-00211-4Copied ISBN!
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