The Confessions

  • The Confessions
    The Confessions
    By Saint Augustine

    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.

  • The Confessions
    The Confessions
    By Augustine of Hippo

    Shows sensitivity to his passion and poetry that should make the text more accessible to contemporary English readers.

  • The Confessions
    The Confessions
    By Saint Augustine

    To make "The Confessions" accessible to contemporary readers, Chadwick provides the most complete and informative notes of any recent translation, and includes an introduction to establish the context.

  • The Confessions: With an Introduction and Contemporary Criticism
    The Confessions: With an Introduction and Contemporary Criticism
    By Saint Augustine

    or the corporeal order, beings plunging into excess or straying into far-off regions of unlikeness to yourself.8 Even in its unformed state the spiritual was of higher dignity than any formed corporeal thing, and a corporeal being, ...

  • The Confessions: Introduction by Robin Lane Fox
    The Confessions: Introduction by Robin Lane Fox
    By Augustine

    Augustine's fourth-century spiritual autobiography not only is a major document in the history of Christianity, a classic of Roman Africa, and the unchallenged model through the ages for the autobiographical record of the journey to self ...

  • The Confessions
    The Confessions
    By Saint Augustine

    ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe.

  • The Confessions
    The Confessions
    By Saint Augustine

    Presents an English translation of Saint Augustine's "Confessions" in which the fourth-century bishop reflects on his faith and reveals his sins

  • The Confessions
    The Confessions
    By St. Augustine

    ... me . Full of detestable filth as I was , you kept me safe from the waters of the sea to bring me to the water of ... home , and it was only with difficulty that I persuaded her to spend the night in a place very near our ship , a ...

  • The Confessions
    The Confessions
    By Saint Augustine

    Its original title was Confessions in Thirteen Books, and it was composed to be read out loud with each book being a complete unit. The work outlines St. Augustine's sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity.