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Confessions
- 351 pages · about 6 hours
- 450 editions
- Free to read
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1 About this book
Garry Wills’s complete translation of Saint Augustine’s spiritual masterpiece—available now for the first time 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.
Good for readers who want: spirituality, a true life story, philosophy, and a book they can read free online.
- Spiritual life
- Religion & Spirituality
- Inspiration
- Biography & autobiography
- Biography
- Africa, biography
- Philosophy
- Christian biography
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