Augustine's Confessions: A Biography

by Garry Wills

Book Overview

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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691217645
• ISBN13: 9780691217642
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"