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In Garry Wills's biography of Saint Augustine for the Penguin Lives series, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author brilliantly documented the life of the great Christian thinker. His translations of passages of Saint Augustine's influential Confessiones were hailed as "sizzling" (Peter ... read more

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Augustine was born in the era of Late Antiquity, that now much-studied period when the Roman empire was widespread, officially Christian, and not fully aware of the end that was looming for it.

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