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An edition of Confessions (1482)

Confessions

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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. Reading with fresh, keen eyes, Wills brings his superb gifts of analysis and insight to this ambitious translation of the entire book. “[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

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Penguin Books
Language
English
Pages
346

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Cover of: Confessions
Confessions
2013, Darton, Longman and Todd
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The confessions of Saint Augustine
2005, ICON Classics
electronic resource / in English - Webster's Spanish Thesaurus ed. for ESL, EFL, ELP, TOEFL, TOEIC and AP test preparation.
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The Confessions of St. Augustine
March 1, 2005, Revell
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The confessions of Saint Augustine
2005, ICON Classics
electronic resource / in English - Webster's Korean Thesaurus ed. for ESL, EFL, ELP, TOEFL, TOEIC and AP test preparation.
Cover of: The Confessions of St. Augustine
The Confessions of St. Augustine
1999, Barnes & Noble
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Confessions
1961, Penguin Books
in English
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Confessions of ST. Augustine
December 1, 1961, Scribner
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The confessions of Saint Augustine
1943, Sheed & Ward
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Cover of: Confessions, Vol. 2
Confessions, Vol. 2: Books 9-13 (Loeb Classical Library, No. 27)
January 1, 1912, Loeb Classical Library
Hardcover in English
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The Confessions of Saint Augustine
1907, Methuen & Co.
in English - 6th ed.
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England, New York, N.Y., U.S.A
Series
Penguin classics -- L114

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
270.2092
Library of Congress
BR65.A6 E5 1961b

The Physical Object

Pagination
346 p. ;
Number of pages
346

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24375842M
Internet Archive
confessionsaugu
ISBN 10
014044114X
ISBN 13
9780140441147
OCLC/WorldCat
17378541

Excerpts

i (1) 'You are great, Lord, and highly to be praised (Ps. 47: 2): great is your power and your wisdom is immeasurable' (Ps. 146:5).
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[I.] 1. Great art Thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised ; great is Thy power, and Thy wisdom infinite.
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