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Confessions

A New Translation

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Confessions

Written by: Saint Augustine, Jack Miles - foreward, Peter Constantine - translator
Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
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This long-awaited translation of Confessions, which Stephen Greenblatt describes as central to the legacy of Adam and Eve, enlivens the beguiling world of late antiquity.

No modern, well-versed literature lover can call her education complete without having listened to Augustine’s Confessions. One of the most original works of world literature, it is the first autobiography ever written, influencing writers from Montaigne to Rousseau, Virginia Woolf to Gertrude Stein - and most recently informing Stephen Greenblatt’s provocative thesis about one of our foundational mythologies in The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve. It is here that we learn how one of the greatest saints in Christendom overcame a wild and reckless past, complete with a rambunctious posse of friends, an overly doting mother, and an affair that produced a “bastard” child.

Yet English translators have long emphasized the ecclesiastical virtues of Augustine’s masterpiece, often at the expense of its passion and literary vigor. Restoring the lyricism of Augustine’s original language, Peter Constantine offers a masterful and elegant rendering of Confessions in what will be a classic for decades to come.

©2018 Peter Constantine; Foreword copyright by John R. Miles (P)2018 Audible, Inc. Christianity History Ministry & Evangelism Religious Figures Spirituality
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I connected with this audiobook, the moment I listened to its introduction and it's translator's note. As I listened on, I started getting absorbed in the words of the translator. This book is different than all other similar books on the Confession. I would listen to this book many times to connect with the God

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