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Saint Augustines Childhood
by Wills, Garry
- New
- Hardcover
- Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 0670030015
- ISBN 13
- 9780670030019
- Seller
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Hardcover. New. Hardcover New Ships From Canada New in new dust jacket Sewn binding Cloth over boards With dust jacket 208 p Audience: General/trade Book Description: In Garry Wills's biography of Saint Augustine for the Penguin Lives series, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author brilliantly documented the life of the great Christian thinker His translations of passages of Saint Augustine's influential Confessiones were hailed as "'"sizzling"'" (Peter Brown, New York Review of Books) James Wood, writing for the London Review of Books declared, "'"Augustine flourishes in Wills's hand "'" Now, Wills has taken on a translation of the first of four books of the Confessiones, "'"Childhood "'" Wills's broad-ranging and incisive discussion of the style, structure, and themes of "'"Childhood"'" brings a fresh perspective to this classic work, including the juxtaposition of Augustine's concept of childhood and the learning of language with the ideas of Noam Chomsky and current research Beautifully designed and trans
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- Bookseller
- Pine Tree Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9493478152
- Title
- Saint Augustines Childhood
- Author
- Wills, Garry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0670030015
- ISBN 13
- 9780670030019
- Publisher
- Viking Adult
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- October 11, 2001
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