CONFESSIONS

In this new translation the brilliant and impassioned descriptions of Augustine'
s colourful early life are conveyed to the English reader with accuracy and art.
Augustine tells of his wrestlings to master his sexual drive, his rare ascent f
rom a humble Algerian farm to the edge of the corridors of high power at the imp
erial court of Milan, and his renunciation of secular ambition and marriage as h
e recovered the faith that his mother had taught him. It was in a Milan garden t
hat 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 th
e day.