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Augustine's Confessions : A Biography /

In this brief and incisive book, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills tells the story of the Confessions--what motivated Augustine to dictate it, how it asks to be read, and the many ways it has been misread in the one-and-a-half millennia since it was composed. Following Wills's biogra...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Wills, Garry, 1934-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The book's birth
  • The book's genre
  • The book's African days
  • The book's Ambrose
  • The book's "conversion"
  • The book's baptismal days
  • The book's culmination
  • The book's afterlife : early reception, later neglect.