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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.
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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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Written in 397 A.D., Saint Augustine's classic autobiography, Confessions, reveals the innermost thoughts and struggles of a soul converting from selfishness and pleasure-seeking to a life of love for God.
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0143039512
- ISBN 13 9780143039518
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages368
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