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

ix, 403 pp. Translated into English from the original Norwegian by Paulette Moller. "Sophie, a Norwegian schoolgirl, is anticipating her fifteenth birthday when a card arrives in the mail asking the question: Who are you? With her unorthodox and mysterious mentor Alberto Knox, Sophie ponders the great questions of Western philosophy (ranging from the pre-Socratic Greeks to Jean-Paul Sartre) in this fascinating, humorous work." -- Midwest Book Review