Confessions
$31.67
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
18 May 2011
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143105701 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0143105701 |
| Author: | Augustine of Hippo, Garry Wills |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Penguin USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 18 May 2011 |
| Weight: | 301g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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What They're Saying
Critics Review
[Wills] renders Augustine
”[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
Augustine of Hippo
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.
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