Reviews
"[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 masterful synthesis of classical philosophy and scriptural erudition." -- Chicago Tribune, "[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 masterful synthesis of classical philosophy and scriptural erudition." - Chicago Tribune
