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A full page-turning story that's also an exploration of the truly amazing philosophical ideas of Western thought, Sophie's World has fired the imagination of visitors all around the world, with significantly more than twenty-million copies in print.One evening fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes back home from college to locate in her mail two records, with one issue on each: "Who're you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that amazing starting, Sophie becomes enthusiastic about concerns that get her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian town. Through these letters, she enrolls in a type of communication program, addressing Socrates to Sartre, having a philosopher, while getting letters addressed to a different woman. Who's Hilde? And why does her email keep arriving?