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Title: THE CONFESSIONS
By: Saint Augustine, Henry Chadwick (Trans)
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0192833723
ISBN 13: 9780192833723
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Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 5 March, 1998
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Pages: 352
Translated from: Latin
Description: This new translation conveys to the English reader with accuracy and art the brilliant and impassioned descriptions of Augustine's colourful early life.
Synopsis: In this new translation the brilliant and impassioned descriptions of Augustine's colourful early life are conveyed to the English reader with accuracy and art. Augustine tells of his wrestlings to master his sexual drive, his rare ascent from a humble Algerian farm to the edge of the corridors of high power at the imperial court of Milan, and his renunciation of secular ambition and marriage as he recovered the faith that his mother had taught him. It was in a Milan garden that Augustine finally achieved the act of will to Christian conversion, which he compared to a lazy man in bed finally deciding it is time to get up and face the day.
Illustrations: bibliography, index
Publication: UK
Imprint: Oxford Paperbacks
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