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Paperback. Very Good.

Penguin, 2016-11-03. Paperback. Very Good. 2.8934 in x 19.7970 in x 12.8934 in.

Penguin, 03/11/2016. paperback. Good. 19 to 25 cm tall, Octavo, (8vo). Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.

Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; <b>Robin Lane Fox</b> is Emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford, and taught Ancient History at Oxford University from 1977 to 2014. He is the author of <i>Pagans and Christians</i> (1986), <i>The Unauthoriz

Penguin, 2016. Paperback. New. 672 pages. 4.72x4.72x0.47 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. A major new interpretation of how one of the great figures of Christian history came to write the greatest of all autobiographies Augustine is the person from the ancient world about whom we know most. He is the author of an intimate masterpiece, the Confessions, which continues to delight its many admirers. In it he writes about his infancy and his schooling in the classics in late Roman North Africa, his remarkable mother, his sexual sins ('Give me chastity, but not yet,' he famously prayed), his time in an outlawed heretical sect, his worldly career and friendships and his gradual return to God. His account of his own eventual conversion is a classic study of anguish, hesitation and what he believes to be God's intervention. It has inspired philosophers, Christian thinkers and monastic followers, but it still leaves readers wondering why exactly Augustine chose to compose a work like none before it. Robin Lane Fox follows Augustine on a brilliantly… Leer más

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.