Augustine's "confessions": A Biography

(Part of the Lives of Great Religious Books Series)

by Garry Wills

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From Pulitzer Prize-winner Garry Wills, the story of Augustine's Confessions

In this brief and incisive book, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills tells the story of the Confessions--what motivated Augustine to dictate it, how it asks to be read, and the many ways it has been misread in the one-and-a-half millennia since it was composed. Following Wills's biography of Augustine and his translation of the Confessions,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0691143579

ISBN13:9780691143576

Release Date:February 2011

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:176 Pages

Weight:0.61 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 4.8" x 7.8"

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Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Religion Religion & Spirituality

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