Saint Augustine's Childhood: CONFESSIONES BOOK ONE (Testimony, Bk 1)

By Garry Wills

The traditional title for St. Augustine's classic devotional work The Confessions can be misleading. Because it is a transliteration, not a translation, of the Latin title, it encourages readers to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670030015
• ISBN13: 9780670030019
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.8" x 5.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

Riding the Augustine Channel

Nobody has tackled the Augustine works like Mr. Wills. He has painstakingly translated from the Original idiomatticaly complex Latin, and wrung the nuance right out of it, making it transparent and pliable to even the average Intellect, while not pandering to the pretentious rabbleness normally exhibited by their ilk. It's like Shakespeare with the grammar fixed. I look forward to his treatment of St. Thomas Aquinas! (Disclaimer: Please insert humourous intent ... wherever; I do appreciate Mr. Wills work with St. Augustine.)