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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691143579
• ISBN13: 9780691143576
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.8" x 7.8"