The Confessions

In this new translation the brilliant and impassioned descriptions of Augustine's colourful early life are conveyed to the English reader with accuracy and art. Augustine tells of his wrestlings to master his sexual drive, his rare ascent from a humble Algerian farm to the edge of the corridors of high power at the imperial court of Milan, and his renunciation of secular ambition and marriage as he recovered the faith that his mother had taught him. It was in a Milan garden
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Date de sortie14 septembre 2008
LangueAnglais
ÉditeurOXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
CollectionOxford World's Classics
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