Peter Constantine

"No modern, well-versed literature lover can call an education complete without having read Augustine's Confessions. Irrefutably, from the time it was written in the fourth century AD until today, the Confessions is one of the most important autobiographical texts for Christians and non-Christians alike, having influenced writers from Montaigne to Rousseau, Woolf to Stein. While it sometimes has been read as a merely religious text, or even as a private...