{"product_id":"confessions-isbn-9780143105701","title":"Confessions","description":"Garry Wills is an exceptionally gifted translator and one of our best writers on religion today. His bestselling translations of individual chapters of Saint Augustine’s \u003ci\u003eConfessions \u003c\/i\u003ehave received widespread and glowing reviews. Now for the first time, Wills’s translation of the entire work is being published as a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition. Removed by time and place but not by spiritual relevance, Augustine’s \u003ci\u003eConfessions \u003c\/i\u003econtinues to influence contemporary religion, language, and thought. Reading with fresh, keen eyes, Wills brings his superb gifts of analysis and insight to this ambitious translation of the entire book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003c\/p\u003e\"[Wills] renders Augustine’s famous and influential text in direct language with all the spirited wordplay and poetic strength intact.\" \u003ci\u003e—\u003cb\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[Wills’s] translations . . . are meant to bring Augustine straight into our own minds; and they succeed. Well-known passages, over which my eyes have often gazed, spring to life again from Wills’s pages.\" —\u003cb\u003ePeter Brown\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Augustine flourishes in Wills’s hand.\" —\u003cb\u003eJames Wood\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A masterful synthesis of classical philosophy and scriptural erudition.\" —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSaint Augustine\u003c\/b\u003e was born on November 13th, A.D. 354, in Tagaste (modern Souk Ahras, Algeria), and died almost seventy-six years later in Hippo Regius (modern Annaba) on the Mediterranean coast sixty miles away. In the years between, he devoted himself to the mastery of the texts of scripture, becoming a formidable theologian.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGarry Wills\u003c\/b\u003e is a historian and the author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestsellers \u003ci\u003eWhat Jesus Meant\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePapal Sin\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhy I Am a Catholic\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWhy Priests?\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. A frequent contributor to the \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e and other publications, Wills is a Pulitzer Prize winner and a professor emeritus at Northwestern University. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301878649061,"sku":"NP9780143105701","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143105701.jpg?v=1767724035","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/confessions-isbn-9780143105701","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}