Sophie's world: a novel about the history of philosophy (Berkeley Signature Edition)

" 'Sophie's World' [is] Gaarder's history of Western philosophy embedded in a science fiction-like novel...[and I can] understand the unusual enthusiasm the book has generated....[In} an entertaining brainteaser of a novel....Sophie thinks like a Platonist in the early part of the course, like an empiricist in the middle, and like an existentialist toward the end.Jostein Gaarder is the author of 'Sophie's world: a novel about the history of philosophy (Berkeley Signature Edition)', published 1997 under ISBN 9780425156841 and ISBN 0425156842.