Confessions
Edited By: Garry Wills
By: Saint Augustine
Stock No: WW105701
Confessions - Edited By: Garry Wills By: Saint Augustine
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Confessions

Edited By: Garry Wills
By: Saint Augustine
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Penguin Classics / 2008 / Paperback
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Augustine's Confessions have influenced literature, religion, and history. Ruminating on childhood, sing, Manichaeism, friends, materialism, Milan, neoplatonism, vocation, baptism, memory, Father, Son, and Spirit, Augustine's writings continue to shine with all the force of the author's mind. 353 pages, softcover.

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Title: Confessions
By: Saint Augustine
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 353
Vendor: Penguin Classics
Publication Date: 2008
Dimensions: 7.78 X 5.02 X 0.65 (inches)
Weight: 11 ounces
ISBN: 0143105701
ISBN-13: 9780143105701
Series: Moody Classics
Stock No: WW105701

Publisher's Description

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Garry Wills is an exceptionally gifted translator and one of our best writers on religion today. His bestselling translations of individual chapters of Saint Augustine’s Confessions have received widespread and glowing reviews. Now for the first time, Wills’s translation of the entire work is being published as a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition. Removed by time and place but not by spiritual relevance, Augustine’s Confessions continues to influence contemporary religion, language, and thought. Reading with fresh, keen eyes, Wills brings his superb gifts of analysis and insight to this ambitious translation of the entire book.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents 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.

Author Bio

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Saint Augustine was born on November 13th, A.D. 354, in Tagaste (modern Souk Ahras, Algeria), and died almost seventy-six years later in Hippo Regius (modern Annaba) on the Mediterranean coast sixty miles away. In the years between, he devoted himself to the mastery of the texts of scripture, becoming a formidable theologian.

Garry Wills is a historian and the author of the New York Times bestsellers What Jesus Meant, Papal Sin, Why I Am a Catholic, and Why Priests?, among others. A frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and other publications, Wills is a Pulitzer Prize winner and a professor emeritus at Northwestern University. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.

Editorial Reviews

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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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