All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the confessions of saint augustine. Augustine writes as a common man, and so his words span time and tradition. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Augustine in order to distinguish the book from other books with similar titles, such as jeanjacques rousseaus confessions. Click download or read online button to get confessions book now. Confessiones is the name of an autobiographical work, consisting of books, by saint augustine of hippo, written in latin between ad 397 and 400. I never dreamed that one day i would finished reading a 300page memoir w. It is considered the first western autobiography ever written, and was an influential model for christian writers for the next years. The confessions of saint augustine outlines augustine s sinful youth and his conversion to christianity. Confessiones is the name of an autobiographical work, consisting of books, by saint augustine of hippo, written in latin between 397 and 400 ad.
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