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Book Review of Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy

Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy
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One day Sophie comes home from school to find two questions in her mail: Who are you? and Where does the world come from? Before she knows it, she is enrolled ina correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre and beyond, with a mysterious phlosopher. But Sophie is receiving a separate batch of equally unusual letters. Who is Hilde? and why does her mail keep turning up in Sophie's world? to unravel this riddle, Sophie must make use of the philosophy she is learning. But the truth is far more complicated than she could have imagined....