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JOSTEIN GAARDER
SOPHIE’S WORLD
A Novel about the History of Philosophy
Translated by Paulette Moller
Phoenix House
LONDON
First published in Great Britain in 1995
by Phoenix House

CONTENTS
THE GARDEN OF EDEN
... at some point something must have come from nothing ... 3 THE TOP HAT . . . the only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder... 10 THE MYTHS ... a precarious balance between the forces of good and evil... 18 THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHERS . . . nothing can
...time there would be a few letters from the bank for her father, but then he was not a normal father. Sophie’s father was the captain of a big oil tanker, and was away for most of the year. During the few weeks at a time when he was at home, he would shuffle around the house making it nice and cosy for Sophie and her mother. But when he was at sea he could seem very distant. There was only one letter in the mailbox—and it was for Sophie. The white envelope read: “Sophie Amundsen, 3 Clover Close.
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