Confessions - Oxford World's Classics

Augustine described his colourful early life, from his rare ascent from a humble Algerian farm to the edge of the corridors of high power at the imperial court of Milan. It tells of is 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 conversian, which he compared to a lazy man in bed finally deciding it is time to get up and face the day...