The Confessions - Brossura

Augustine, Saint

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0199537828 ISBN 13: 9780199537822

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2008

Riassunto

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 that Augustine finally achieved the act of will to Christian conversion, which he compared to a lazy man in bed finally deciding it is time to get up and face the day.

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Recensione

If the Latin is a "work of high art", so is this translation. (The Times)

Contenuti

Introduction; Bibliographical note; Dates; The Confessions; Index

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0199537828
• ISBN 13: 9780199537822
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 352
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile