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title: "Sophie's World: 20th Anniversary Edition"
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# Sophie's World: 20th Anniversary Edition

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ One of the most important book you'll read
*by D***L on 28 February 2025*

I adore this book. First time I read it years ago I was amazed at what it achieved. 3000 years of philosophy in one book...incredible. When you read this book, you will change for the better.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Sophie
*by K***Y on 23 January 2023*

I read this book when it first came out and it blew me away. Until I met my now partner of 3 years I never encountered anyone who I thought would appreciate it.He is retired and has had health issues but recently also has had family troubles ( a sister and brother died suddenly). I could see he was struggling and when I realised it was 20 years! since I first read Sophies World I had to get it for him even as a distraction from his worries. It is a magical story which on the surface looks banal but the truths within are breathtaking. He loves it and says its the best present ever. Well written wish I had done it. My partner and me very happy with it and as soon as he is done I am getting it off him! Just have to re read Paolo Coelho The Alchemist again first which he bought me for our first anniversary!NB My own copy of Sophie disappeared at the time my eldest daughter went off to Uni LOL

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great introduction to philosophy not so good story
*by J***S on 29 March 2011*

Jostein Gaarder writes well or his translator does - whichever way this is well written with accessible and compelling prose. I bought this after it was recommended as an introduction to philosophy and at that it is great. Gaarder's relaxed style, superb use of examples and the interplay between the curious Sophie and her philosopher mentor Alberto Knox makes an often turgid and offputting world interesting, enticing and above all accessible. I am reading my masters in philosophy now and as an introduction to all of the big ideas of philosophy I couldn't really have done better. Of course covering so much does mean that from time to time some of the coverage is superficial but it is only an introduction. As a philosophy textbooks go brilliant.The story follows Sophie as she approaches her fifteenth birthday and begins receive strange letters and notes asking questions such as "who are you?" and "where do you come from?" The notes are followed by complex letters explaining philosophy from the pre-Socratics to modern day new-agers and existentialists. Eventually Sophie meets her intiguing tutor (much to her mother's consternation) and they begin to explore some of the more complex issues together. All the while Sophie is also receiving notes from a Major based with the UN in Lebanon for his daughter Hilde (with whom Sophie shares a birthday). The premise is actually very interesting and I was intrigued to find the relationship between Hilde and Sophie. Gaarder is keen on stories within stories and this book weaves intricate tales within tales and hints at the possibility of more. And actually as a result the last hundred pages aren't very good and the end is frankly rubbish.So as a story I can't really recommend this despite how well it starts but as a lively introduction to the subject of philosophy spot on.

## Frequently Bought Together

- Sophie's World: 20th Anniversary Edition
- Sophie’s World Vol I: A Graphic Novel About the History of Philosophy: From Socrates to Galileo

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