Description: When Saint Augustine wrote his Confessions he was facing, and responding to, a growing spread of asceticism in the Roman world.
Review Quotes: "[Wills] renders Augustine's famous and influential text in direct language with all the spirited wordplay and poetic strength intact." --Los Angeles Times
"[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." --Peter Brown, The New York Review of Books
"Augustine flourishes in Wills's hand." --James Wood
"A masterful synthesis of classical philosophy and scriptural erudition." --Chicago Tribune