Sophie's World
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Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy is a 1991 novel by Norwegian writer Jostein Gaarder. It follows Sophie Amundsen, a Norwegian teenager, who is introduced to the history of philo
First edition (Norwegian)
History of Western Philosophy is a 1945 book by British philosopher Bertrand Russell. A survey of Western philosophy from the pre-Socratic philosophers to the early 20th century, each major division o
Sophie's World
…Where does this world come from?" in a letter from an unknown philosopher. The nonfictional content of the book roughly aligns with Bertrand Russell's A 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…
Dustjacket of the first UK edition