num_pages: 353
description: 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.
language: English
title: Confessions
titlecomplete: Confessions
characters: Ambrose, Augustine of Hippo
genres: Religion, Theology, Philosophy, Biography, Christian, Spirituality, Classics, Nonfiction, History, Christianity
ratings_count: 61256
series: Patrística
publisher: Penguin Classics