Sophie’s World
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print.
One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning―but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
As mentioned in:
- Episode #12 – Close Encounters of the Other Kind (with Kathy Wickward)
- Episode #30 – Putting the Merry Back in Christmas by Mystie during the Scholé Every Day (formerly known as Scholé RDA) segment
- Episode #32 – Paideia is All Greek to Me
- Episode #68 – Make Classical Education Scholé Again by Brandy during the Scholé Every Day segment
- Episode #158 – Postmodernism Wants Your Kids
