Confess
Garry Wills’s complete translation of Saint Augustine’s spiritual masterpiece—available now for the first time Garry Wills is an exceptionally gifted translator and one of our best writers on religion today. His bestselling translations of individual chapters of Saint Augustine’s Confessions have received widespread and glowing reviews. Now for the first time, Wills’s translation of the entire work is being published as a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition. Removed by time and place but not by spiritual relevance, Augustine’s Confessions continues to influence contemporary religion, language, and thought. Reading with fresh, keen eyes, Wills brings his superb gifts of analysis and insight to this ambitious translation of the entire book. “[Wills] renders Augustine’s famous and influential text in direct language with all the spirited wordplay and poetic strength intact.”—Los Angeles Times“[Wills’s] translations . . . are meant to bring Augustine straight into our own minds; and they succeed. Well-known passages, over which my eyes have often gazed, spring to life again from Wills’s pages.”—Peter Brown, The New York Review of Books“Augustine flourishes in Wills’s hand.”—James Wood“A ma
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In Dallas, twenty-one-year-old Auburn Reed walks into an art studio and meets Owen Gentry, a painter whose work is built on anonymous confessions left in his door. Each one of them is hiding a serious one.
Multiple books share this title. The most commonly searched is Confess by Colleen Hoover, published in 2015. The book is paired with paintings by Danny O'Connor that are referenced throughout the story.
Yes. Confess contains explicit on-page romance scenes, around 3 to 4 out of 5 on the spice scale. It is among Colleen Hoover's steamier titles.
Yes. Confess contains explicit on-page romance scenes, around 3 to 4 out of 5 on the spice scale. It is among Colleen Hoover's steamier titles.
Confess is 351 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Confess takes most readers 5 to 8 hours to finish.
Confess is a standalone novel by Augustine of Hippo, not part of a series.
Confess is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
