St. Augustine - Confessions

"You called and cried out loud and shattered my deafness. You were radient and respeldent, you put to flight my blindness. You were fragrant, and I drew in my breath and now pant after you. I tasted you, and I feel but hunger and thirst for you. You touched me, and I am set on fire to attain the peace which is yours."In this new translation the brilliant and impassioned descriptions of Augustine's colorful early life are conveyed to the English reader with accuracy and art.Augustine tells us of his wrestlings to master his sexual desire, his rare ascent from a humble Algerian farm to the edge of the corridors of high power at the imperial court of Milan, and his renunciation of secular ambition and marriage as he recovered the faith that his mother had taught him. It was in a Milan garden that Augustine finally achieved the act of will to Christian conversion, which he compared to a lazy man in bed finally deciding it is time to get up and face the day."If the Latin is a 'work of high art,' so is this translation." -The Times"A masterpiece beyond classification." -Church TimesTranslated with an Introduction and Notes by Henry Chadwick.