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The Confessions

• Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
• Publisher : New City Press
• Release Date : 1997
• Genre : Religion
• Pages : 416
• ISBN : 9781565480834

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

The Confessions

• Author : Saint Augustine
• Publisher : OUP Oxford
• Release Date : 2008-08-14
• Genre : Biography & Autobiography
• Pages : 352
• ISBN : 9780191500978

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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. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Confessions

• Author : Brother Bob
• Publisher : Christian Classics
• Release Date : 2012-09-01
• Genre : Religion
• Pages : 110
• ISBN : 1934335592

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Confessions by St. Augustine of Hippo, one of the Doctors of the Church, is a classic of Christian literature, written centuries ago. This new translation by Brother Bob presents the words of the great saint in modern 21st century English and gives today's reader the opportunity to easily grasp the concepts. This first part of Confessions is indeed St. Augustine's confession of sin and failing. The entries trace his growth from youth to manhood, Manichean to Christian, priest to bishop, and mortal to saint. Not only is Confessions well-known in the Christian world, but it laid the foundation for modern day journaling.

Confessions of a Prosaic Dreamer

• Author : Gerald Monsman
• Publisher : Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press
• Release Date : 1984
• Genre : Literary Collections
• Pages : 165
• ISBN : UOM:39015008686076

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More than Charles Lamb himself could ever know, the creation of Elia as his personal artistic voice was his way to endure the memories of September 22, 1796, a day of primal horror when his sister Mary in a fit of insanity killed their mother and destroyed the Lamb family. Throughout the rest of his life Lamb was faced with those memories , with deep-seated personal and career disillusionments. Yet through Elia he confronted his inner self to forge the essays that may be considered among the most brilliant and inimitable works in English letters. Gerald Monsman in this study abandons the customary chronological approach to Lamb's life in favor of a more incisive, open-ended discussion of the Elia essays. By a close textual examination of Lamb's language, he relates the essayist's use of symbol and autobiographical concerns. Monsman contends and demonstrates that "as sharply and as pertinently as any artistic voice, Elia, the most celebrated persona in the nineteenth century, focuses the problems inherent in the modern literary imagination." Elia's "textual identity is a function of the author's actual life, of losses and imperfections artistically utilized and harmonized, employed against themselves to produce the rehabilitating symbol."