Review
“Garry Wills rescues Augustine’s Confessions from its posterity, peeling away layer after layer of anachronistic reactions to the text and providing an invaluable aid to readers. A master restorer, Wills gives us a picture carefully cleaned of a millennium- and- a- half of varnish. . . . This is vintage Wills- punchy, clear, well- argued and beautifully translated, both linguistically and culturally.
- Peter Brown, author of Augustine of Hippo: A Biography