1. Gaarder, Jostein Sophie's World A Novel about the History of Philosophy, Vita Brevis A Letter to St Augustine, The Solitaire Mystery a novel about family and destiny, Through a Glass, Darkly http://www.artistactoractress.com/author/g/gaarder_jostein.html

Gaarder, Jostein Average customer rating: overrated, mediocre fiction, but nice to philosophy I felt the need to say this, so that others may be informed Philosophy for the uninitiated A history of philosophy that is almost ruined by its story Philosophy...Through The Eyes of a Child Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy Jostein Gaarder Manufacturer: Berkley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: The Solitaire Mystery: a novel about family and destiny How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit Siddhartha Landscape of Wisdom: A Guided Tour of Western Philosophy ASIN: Amazon.com Wanting to understand the most fundamental questions of the universe isn't the province of ivory-tower intellectuals alone, as this book's enormous popularity has demonstrated. A young girl, Sophie, becomes embroiled in a discussion of philosophy with a faceless correspondent. At the same time, she must unravel a mystery involving another young girl, Hilde, by using everything she's learning. The truth is far more complicated than she could ever have imagined. Book Description This elegant CD-ROM will take you on an interactive journey through the history of Western philosophy, from its beginnings in ancient astronomy and myth up to twentieth-century existentialism. The philosophical adventure is built around a series of exchanges between a naturally curious young girl and her anonymous teacher, in which the user must participate. The pedagogical value of this interaction is complimented by the CD-ROM's Reference Band, a philosophical map providing eight film summaries of particular historical epochs and 28 text summaries of the work of major philosophers. The CD-ROM is available on its own, or can be combined with the #1 international bestselling novel, Sophie's World, by Jostein Gaarderan excellent and affordable combination for introductory classes.

2. Gaarder, Jostein / Aschehoug Fiction / Aschehoug / Authors / Home - Aschehoug Ag Content Management System Gaarder, Jostein. In 1991, when Jostein Gaarder wrote SOPHIE'S WORLD he believed that a novel on the history of philosophy would appeal only to a specialist http://www.aschehougagency.no/authors/aschehoug/aschehoug_fiction/gaarder_jostei

@import "/design/agency/stylesheets/all.css"; @import "/design/agency/stylesheets/netmaking.css"; AshehougAgency Home About us Contact us ... News archive You are here: Home Authors Aschehoug Aschehoug Fiction / Gaarder, Jostein Search: or show me books not translated to: Select a language... Albanian American English Amharic Arabic Armenian Azeri Basque Bengali Bosnian Brazilian Portuguese British English Bulgarian Catalan Chinese (complex) Chinese (simplified) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch Estonian Faeroese Finnish French Georgian German Greek Greenlandic Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Italian Japanese Korean Kurdish Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malay Malayalam Marathi Persian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Sami Serbian Singhalese Slovakian Slovene Spanish Swahili Swedish Tamil Thai Tigrinja Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Gaarder, Jostein In 1991, when Jostein Gaarder wrote SOPHIE'S WORLD he believed that a novel on the history of philosophy would appeal only to a specialist readership. In 1995 the book was the most sold novel in the world. To date SOPHIE'S WORLD has been translated into 53 languages and has sold over 30 million copies. An unknown number of pirate editions also exist. Jostein Gaarder's other works, both his children's books and adult novels such as THE SOLITAIRE MYSTERY, THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLY, VITA BREVIS

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@import "/design/agency/stylesheets/all.css"; @import "/design/agency/stylesheets/netmaking.css"; AshehougAgency Home About us Contact us ... News archive You are here: Home Books Fiction Novels / Gaarder, Jostein: Checkmate Search: or show me books not translated to: Select a language... Albanian American English Amharic Arabic Armenian Azeri Basque Bengali Bosnian Brazilian Portuguese British English Bulgarian Catalan Chinese (complex) Chinese (simplified) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch Estonian Faeroese Finnish French Georgian German Greek Greenlandic Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Italian Japanese Korean Kurdish Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malay Malayalam Marathi Persian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Sami Serbian Singhalese Slovakian Slovene Spanish Swahili Swedish Tamil Thai Tigrinja Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Checkmate Gaarder, Jostein : Sjakk matt Checkmate - Riddles, Fairytales and Stories "In the autumn of 2005 I was contacted by my publisher who asked me if I would like to put together a cross section of my authorship to mark the occasion that in 2006 twenty years have passed since I made my debut as a fiction writer. At first I was hesitant. The task seemed both pompous and daunting. But then I became more excited and found myself thinking that perhaps there is something here that I can present again, something I can put into an entirely new context. One criterion in particular has been crucial to the selection: All 64 texts in this collection had to be readable as independent pieces, regardless of the context from which they were taken. It is, as we know, not easy to extract a single paragraph from a novel, but people at the publishing house argued that when it came to large parts of my authorship, doing just so might indeed be possible. In retrospect I agree. My books are often composed of a number of more or less independent elements - riddles, fairytales and stories - and often consist of one layer upon another.

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5. Jostein Gaarder - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Jostein Gaarder (born 8 August 1952 in Oslo) is a Norwegian intellectual and author of several novels, short stories and children's books. Gaarder often writes from the perspective of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jostein_Gaarder

Jostein Gaarder From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Jostein Gaarder Jostein Gaarder (born 8 August 1952 in Oslo ) is a Norwegian intellectual and author of several novels short stories and children's books . Gaarder often writes from the perspective of children, exploring their sense of wonder about the world. He often uses metafiction in his works, writing stories within stories Gaarder was born into a pedagogical family. His best known work is the novel Sophie's World , subtitled A Novel about the History of Philosophy . This popular work has been translated into fifty-three languages; there are over thirty million copies in print, In 1997, he established the Sophie Prize together with his wife Siri Dannevig. This prize is an international environment and development prize ( USD ), awarded annually. It is named after the novel. Contents Awards and prizes Environmental and human rights activism Quotations List of works ... edit Awards and prizes Norwegian Booksellers' Prize for I et speil, i en gåte Through a Glass, Darkly Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for Sophie's World Premio Bancarella for Il Mondo di Sofia , the Italian translation of Sophie's World Buxtehude Bull for Durch einen Spiegel, in einem dunklen Wort

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8. Gaarder, Jostein 1952- [WorldCat Identities] Sophie's world a novel about the history of philosophy by Jostein Gaarder ( Book ) 144 editions published between 1991 http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n94-41978

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9. Jostein Gaarder - Wikipedia, Den Frie Encyklopædi Biografi og bibliografi. http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jostein_Gaarder

Jostein Gaarder Fra Wikipedia, den frie encyklopædi Gå til: navigation søg Jostein Gaarder (født 8. august ) er en norsk forfatter af romaner noveller og børnebøger Gaarder blev født i Oslo . Han studerede skandinaviske sprog og teologi ved Oslos universitet . Et kort stykke tid før han påbegyndte sin forfatterkarriere, underviste han i filosofi Hans bedst kendte værk er romanen Sofies verden . Romanen er oversat til 45 sprog og trykt i mere end 20 millioner eksemplarer. 4. august udtrykte han en stor kritik mod Israels politik i en kronik under overskriften Guds utvalgte folk i Aftenposten , hvori han bl.a. også rejste tvivl om staten Israels ret til at eksistere. Dette førte til beskyldninger om antisemitisme redigér Bibliografi Diagnosen og andre noveller Froskeslottet Kabalemysteriet Sofies verden Julemysteriet I et speil, i en gåte Hallo? Er det noen her? Vita Brevis Maya Sirkusdirektørens datter Appelsinpiken redigér Eksterne henvisninger JosteinGaarder.net Hentet fra " http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jostein_Gaarder Kategorier Født i 1952 Levende personer ... Personer fra Oslo Personlige værktøjer Nye funktioner Opret en konto eller log på Navnerum Artikel Diskussion Varianter Visninger Vis Redigér Se historik Handlinger Søg Navigation Forside Kategorier Fremhævet indhold Tilfældig artikel ... Aktuelle begivenheder Deltagelse Velkommen Skribentforside Projekter Seneste ændringer ... Hjælp Værktøjer Hvad henviser hertil Relaterede ændringer Specialsider Permanent link ... Citér denne artikel Organisation Donation Kontakt Wikipedia Wikimedia Danmark Udskriv/eksportér

10. Gaarder, Jostein Biography - S9.com Norwegian author and philosophy educator wrote novel Sophie's World 1991 (also Sofies verden ) biography from s9.com. http://www.s9.com/Biography/Gaarder-Jostein

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Gaarder, Jostein Search: This Site The Web Add to your site Contact us Register for free! Gaarder, Jostein (G) Canadian Content Arts Literature Authors ... Gaarder,_Jostein Additional Information: Canadian Content has no additional information. Gaarder, Jostein Sites: Sophie's World Review on the 1991 release. http://www.levity.com/rubric/sophie.html That Same Flower Review on Gaarders 1996 published book "That Same Flower" by Allen Gaborro. http://www.eclectica.org/v2n6/gaborro_that_same_flower.html Jostein Gaarder Biographical and bibliographical information on Norwegian novelist Jostein Gaarder, author of Sophie's World. http://members.aol.com/wpwinter/nordland/gaarder.htm The Solitaire Mystery Review and discussion questions to "A Novel About Family and Destiny". Also features some critical praise. http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides/solitaire_mystery.asp Sophie's World: Commentary Includes questions; notes on the difference between original text and English translation. http://members.lycos.co.uk/sophiesworld/ Maya Jeremy Halcrow reviews "Maya", written by Jostein Gaarder and published in 2000.

12. Review Of Sophie's World, By Jostein Gaarder (Richard Gehr) Review on the 1991 release. http://www.levity.com/rubric/sophie.html

Rubrics and Tendrils of Richard Gehr 5 October 1994 Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy By Jostein Gaarder Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $19 It's tempting to get all warm and gloopy over this well-intentioned response by a Norwegian writer and former philosophy teacher to the New Age "pornography" he fears may replace the Western philosophical canon. Sophie's World has rapidly become an international literary phenom. A genre-crossing European best-seller (file under fiction, philosophy, and young adulthood) with nearly a million copies sold to date, Jostein Gaarder's novel, at 400 pages, is a concise, clearly written corrective to philosophic obscurantism. The foil for Gaarder's pedagogic fantasy is Sophie Amundsen, a spunky 14-year-old whose philosophic journey begins when a pair of timeless ontological posers"Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" appear mysteriously in her mailbox. A follow-up envelope containing typewritten pages titled "What Is Philosophy?" (11) orient her on a correspondence course in the history of philosophy that eventually turns into a Socratic tutorial. Sophie's enthusiasm shocks her mother, who attributes her newfound interest in the mysteries of life to the influence of drugs. Nothing could be further from the truth (at least until the Kierkegaard chapter, when things do get a trifle psychedelic). Although Sophie's tutor, Alberto Knox, grounds the philosopher's project in maintaining a sense of wonder, his disquisition is clean and sober indeed. What keeps the novel moving are the tricks Gaarder plays with what we used to call the old r. and i.reality and illusion. Sophie begins receiving postcards addressed from a United Nations observer in Lebanon to his own 15-year-old daughter, Hilde. As Sophie gradually becomes aware of her existence within a book (within a book (within a book)), the philosophical question gradually take on an existential tinge, embracing problems of determinacy and free will. While not nearly as highfalutin as such would-be popularizers as Umberto Eco, Susan Sontag, or Stephen Hawkins, it's loads of fun in a cool, Scandinavian Alice-in-Wonderland fashion.

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15. Commentary On A Unique Book: "Sophie's World" / Introduction Includes questions; notes on the difference between original text and English translation. http://www.sophiesworld.org

SOPHIE'S WORLD Commentary on a unique book Introduction Questions Quotes Guestbook ... Inspired by... Chapters: News A new section has been added called Inspired by... . There, you will find a choice of works regarding "Sophie's World": Music, films etc. If you have anything to contribute, please write to the web master Now it can be told Welcome to this site about the best-selling book "Sophie's World" (Sofies verden) by Jostein Gaarder. If you have read this introduction before, you may recall that the author wishes to remain anonymous. Well, being both the web master and the author's son, I can now bring a little more light into the affair. My father unexpectedly passed away in April 2003, and while in respect to him I won't reveal who he was, I can still tell you a bit more. He was really fascinated with "Sophie's World", and - being retired - he spent a good amount of time reading what other people had to say about his site. Since he didn't have Internet access at home, he went to a public Internet cafe at least twice a week and wrote down the page hits. I saw this when I went through the agendas he had left behind. Every time another 10,000 hits were reached, he proudly wrote down the number in red ink. Actually, we were going to celebrate the 100,000 hits in summer 2003, but sadly, he died before. His ideas and mine regarding the site were a bit different. He was mainly interested in people discussing his commentary - unfortunately, I feel this hasn't yet taken off. My idea was to create a community where people could discuss the book, and I think that in this respect we were successful. So, while reading the site (or the book), please share a thought for the man who started this site and keep it alive, as my father's legacy and of course as a service to all readers of "Sophie's World".

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20. That Same Flower By Jostein Gaarder - Reviewed By Allen Gaborro - Eclectica Maga Review on Gaarders 1996 published book That Same Flower by Allen Gaborro. http://www.eclectica.org/v2n6/gaborro_that_same_flower.html

Oct/Nov 1998 Book Reviews That Same Flower Jostein Gaarder Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996 168pp ISBN: 0-374-25384-6 reviewed by Allen Gaborro Norwegian-born, international bestselling novelist Jostein Gaarder splendidly exhibits the timelessness, the universality, and the agony of filial, but repudiated love in his book, That Same Flower . The book, Gaarder maintains, is a genuine reproduction of a personal letter composed for Saint Augustine, one of the Latin Fathers of the Christian Church and one of the greatest figures in Western philosophy, by his former lover Floria Aemilia. How Gaarder came upon a manuscript of the letter is an anecdote worth mentioning. He unexpectedly discovered the letter in 1995 while shopping in an antique bookstore in Buenos Aires, Argentina. After a bit of haggling with the bookstore's owner, Gaarder agreed to pay slightly more than $12,000 for the transcript even though he was uncertain at the time about its authenticity. Following a closer examination of the style of the letter's grammar and terminology however, Gaarder eventually convinced himself that it was indeed of Medieval origins. If we are to assume the validity of Gaarder's premise, that the letter (titled the Codex Floriae) is a legitimate transcription of an original medieval document, we can then be assured that he has stumbled onto a major historical find. Depressingly little information has been unearthed over the centuries about Saint Augustine's paramour, whom he resided with, along with their young son Adeodatus, for several years in North Africa and Italy prior to his fateful conversion into the Christian faith. What is known of the enigmatic Floria Aemilia is chiefly derived from what Augustine writes about her in his famous spiritual autobiography Confessions.

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