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At the start, 14-year-old Sophie receives two questions about identity and the origin of the world, then joins an enigmatic instructor whose lessons unfold as lectures and quests. The story connects ancient Greek debate to modern scientific themes such as the Big Bang, while engaging readers with curiosity, contradictions, and an inventive approach to authorship.","Sophie’s World  \nA Novel About the History of Philosophy  \nb y J o s t e i n  G a a r d e r  \n“Extraordinary . . . The book will serve as a first-rate introduction for anyone who never took an introductory philosophy course, and as a pleasant refresher for those who have.” —Newsweek  \n“Brilliant . . . Unlike any other novel . . . Its depth of learning, its intelligence and its totally original conception give it enormous magnetic appeal . . . To be fully human, and to feel our continuity with 3,000 years of philosophical inquiry, we need to put ourselves in Sophie’s world.”  \n—The Boston Sunday Globe  \nT O T H E T E A C H E R  \nWith more than 30 million copies in print, Sophie’s World is a sharp, exciting, entirely different novel that thrives on its contradictions. It’s a page-turning adventure that is also a history of Western philosophy—from the discourse of ancient Greece to debates about the Big Bang. It’s a refreshingly contemporary and candid coming-of-age tale that’s also a sci-fi-like mystery. It’s an international bestseller that is also an extended postmodern riff on the very idea of authorship. In short, it’s just as engaging as it is imaginative.  \nAs the book begins, 14-year-old Sophie finds two notes in her mailbox. One note asks, “Who are you?” The other asks, “Where does the world come from?” From here, with the quirky aid of an equally devoted and mysterious instructor, Sophie sets off on a fantastic philosophical saga that will take her far beyond her small Norwegian hometown. The letters give way to lectures, the questions give way to quests, and the dimensions of Sophie’s world grow ever wider, deeper, and richer.  \nBut who is Hilde? And why does Sophie keep getting her mail? When the enigmatic philosophy instructor starts addressing Sophie as “Hilde” by mistake—or is he doing this on purpose?—things begin to look more complex than Sophie could ever have imagined. Yet the answers can all be found, or so it seems, in the many different philosophies she has been studying.  \n\n| P R A I S E F O RS O P H I E ’ S W O R L D |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| P R E P A R I N GT O R E A D | “First, think of a beginner’s guide to philosophy, written by a schoolteacher . . . Next, imagine a fantasy novel—something like a modern-day version of Through the Looking Glass. Meld these disparate genres, and what do you get? Well, what you get is an improbable international bestseller . . . a runaway hit . . . [a] tour de force.” —Time\u003Cbr>“Remarkable . . . A whimsical and ingenious mystery novel that also happens to bea history of philosophy.” —The Washington Post Book World\u003Cbr>“Just as remarkable for its playful premise as it is for its accessibility . . . The essential charm of Sophie’s World lies in the innocent curiosity of the young character, and the clever narrative structure Gaarder designed to pique it.” —The Columbus Dispatch\u003Cbr>“From the opening Goethe quotation to the closing discussion of the Big Bang theory, this is an extraordinary, exciting, provocative book . . . Gaarder presentsa didactic history of philosophical thought as part ofa fictional mystery story that both pulls readers along and breaks up the ‘heavy’ explanations into manageable parts. Yet the plot is itself a philosophical conundrum, [and this] mystery, like the human mystery, is not really resolved, and leaves readers wanting to know more. Gaarder pulls off the difficult feat of blending philosophy and entertainment ina way that will capture young adults’ interest and make them eager to explore further.” —School Library Journal |\n| R E A D I N G A N D\u003Cbr>U N D E R S T A N D I N GT H E N O V E L | This teacher’s guide consists of three sections, all of which appear immediately below: Reading and Understanding the Novel; Questions and Exercises for the Class; and Terms to Define and Discuss. 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