Confessions (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions) - Softcover

Saint Augustine Of Hippo; Garry Wills

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143039512 ISBN 13: 9780143039518

Publisher: Penguin Books, 2006

Synopsis

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.

A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with French flaps and luxurious Packaging

Features a new introduction by the author

Only four of the thirteen chapters of Garry Wills's translation of Confessions have appeared previously

About this title

Review:

"[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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"[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

About the Author:

Saint Augustine was born on November 13th, A.D. 354 and devoted himself to the mastery of the texts of scripture, becoming a formidable theologian. Garry Wills is one of the most respected writers on religion today. His other books include Lincoln at Gettysburg, which won the Pulitzer Prize.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0143039512
• ISBN 13: 9780143039518
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 354