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    Confessions

    Author Augustine of Hippo
    Translated by Garry Wills
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    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Classics
    On sale Dec 30, 2008 | 368 Pages | 9781440699764
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    In a remarkably honest and revealing spiritual autobiography, Saint Augustine addresses fundamental issues of doctrine that remain integral parts of modern Christianity.

    The son of a pagan father and a Christian mother, Saint Augustine spent his early years torn between conflicting faiths and world views. His Confessions, written when he was in his forties, recount how he came to turn away from his youthful ideas and licentious lifestyle to become a staunch advocate of Christianity and one of its most influential thinkers. Many of the prayers and meditations in Confessions are still fundamental parts of modern religion.

    Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
    Saint Augustine was born on November 13, AD 354, in Tagaste (modern-day Souk Ahras, Algeria), and died almost 76 years later in Hippo Regius (modern-day Annaba) on the Mediterranean coast 60 miles away. In the years between, he devoted himself to the mastery of the texts of scripture, and becoming a formidable theologian. He was the author of On the Beautiful and the Fitting, On Christian Doctrine, Confession, The City of God, On the Trinity, and many more.  View titles by Augustine of Hippo
    "[Wills] renders Augustine’s famous and influential text in direct language with all the spirited wordplay and poetic strength intact." —Los Angeles Times

     

    "[Wills’s] translations . . . are meant to bring Augustine straight into our own minds; and they succeed. Well-known passages, over which my eyes have often gazed, spring to life again from Wills’s pages." —Peter Brown, The New York Review of Books

    "Augustine flourishes in Wills’s hand." —James Wood

    "A masterful synthesis of classical philosophy and scriptural erudition." —Chicago Tribune

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    In a remarkably honest and revealing spiritual autobiography, Saint Augustine addresses fundamental issues of doctrine that remain integral parts of modern Christianity.

    The son of a pagan father and a Christian mother, Saint Augustine spent his early years torn between conflicting faiths and world views. His Confessions, written when he was in his forties, recount how he came to turn away from his youthful ideas and licentious lifestyle to become a staunch advocate of Christianity and one of its most influential thinkers. Many of the prayers and meditations in Confessions are still fundamental parts of modern religion.

    Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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    Saint Augustine was born on November 13, AD 354, in Tagaste (modern-day Souk Ahras, Algeria), and died almost 76 years later in Hippo Regius (modern-day Annaba) on the Mediterranean coast 60 miles away. In the years between, he devoted himself to the mastery of the texts of scripture, and becoming a formidable theologian. He was the author of On the Beautiful and the Fitting, On Christian Doctrine, Confession, The City of God, On the Trinity, and many more.  View titles by Augustine of Hippo

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    "[Wills] renders Augustine’s famous and influential text in direct language with all the spirited wordplay and poetic strength intact." —Los Angeles Times

     

    "[Wills’s] translations . . . are meant to bring Augustine straight into our own minds; and they succeed. Well-known passages, over which my eyes have often gazed, spring to life again from Wills’s pages." —Peter Brown, The New York Review of Books

    "Augustine flourishes in Wills’s hand." —James Wood

    "A masterful synthesis of classical philosophy and scriptural erudition." —Chicago Tribune

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