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AUGUSTINE SAINT THE CONFESSIONS

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
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