Sophie's Companion

Great books deserve to be read more than once. Sophie's World, by Jostein Gaarder, is just such a great book. Published in 1993 and in English in 1994, it remains a continual best-seller, translated into many languages. In Sophie's World we watch fourteen-year-old Sophie come of age mentally, as a mysterious mentor guides her into a world peopled with fairy tale characters, a girl in a mirror, and disturbing, thrilling thinkers from history. This book, Sophie's Companion, comes alongside you as you read Sophie's World. It gives you a philosophy course and an interpretive guide, all while you enjoy Gaarder's fun and challenging novel. Mark Curtis-Thames is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the El Centro Campus of Dallas College, in Dallas, Texas. Intrigued, disturbed by, but hopeful about the staggering diversity in America and around the world today, his teaching focuses on enabling regular people to understand, deal creatively with, and thrive in today's pluralistic world.