
Jostein Gaarder had an unlikely international success with Sophie's World, a novelized exploration of western philosophy through the eyes of a young girl. This is an earlier work, translated from the Norwegian by Sarah Jane Hails. This fable-like story dabbles in philosophy too, though more lightly. It tells of a …

A playful and inventive work from the bestselling author of SOPHIE'S WORLD. A box of Latin manuscripts comes to light in an Argentine flea market. An apocryphal invention by some 17th or 18th century scolar, or a transcript of what it appears to be - a hitherto unheard of letter to St Augustine to a woman he renounced …

Мир Софии — роман об истории философии норвежского писателя Йостейна Гордера, написанный в 1991 году. В течение первых трех лет после опубликования роман занимал первую строчку бестселлеров. К 2008 году переведен по разным данным на 32-38 языков и издан в 45-50 странах, в России впервые опубликован в 1997 году. По …