![]() ![]() ![]() 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. In the years between, he devoted himself to the mastery of the texts of scripture, becoming a formidable theologian. 354, in Tagaste (modern Souk Ahras, Algeria), and died almost seventy-six years later in Hippo Regius(modern Annaba) on the Mediterranean coast sixty miles away. are meant to bring Augustine straight into our own minds and they succeed. Saint Augustine was born on November 13th, A.D. “ renders Augustine’s famous and influential text in direct language with all the spirited wordplay and poetic strength intact.”-Los Angeles Times“ translations. Reading with fresh, keen eyes, Wills brings his superb gifts of analysis and insight to this ambitious translation of the entire book. ![]() ![]() Removed by time and place but not by spiritual relevance, Augustine’s Confessions continues to influence contemporary religion, language, and thought. Now for the first time, Wills’s translation of the entire work is being published as a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition. His bestselling translations of individual chapters of Saint Augustine’s Confessions have received widespread and glowing reviews. Augustine of Hippo, also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian, philosopher, and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa. 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. ![]()
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