Nonfiction · 400
The Confessions of St. Augustine
Augustine of Hippo · translated by E. B. Pusey
Written around the year 400, Augustine’s account of his life to the point of his conversion — his youth in North Africa, his years as a teacher of rhetoric, his mother Monica, the garden in Milan — addressed throughout to God, is the first great autobiography in Western literature and one of the foundations of Christian thought.
It is a strange book to call the first autobiography, because half of it is not narrative. The famous scenes are there — the pears stolen for the pleasure of stealing, the voice in the Milan garden telling him to take up and read — but they occupy nine books out of thirteen. The tenth turns to memory itself, the eleventh to the nature of time, the last two to the opening verses of Genesis.
This edition uses the English translation by E. B. Pusey (1838) and gives all thirteen books complete.
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354–430 · Ancient
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