{"product_id":"2026200016173-secondhand-confessions","title":"Confessions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in the late fourth century, Saint Augustine's Confessions stands as one of the most extraordinary autobiographical works in the Western literary canon — a raw, unflinching account of one man's turbulent journey from a life of sensual indulgence and intellectual wandering to his dramatic conversion to Christianity. Augustine chronicles his restless youth in Roman North Africa, his years as a rhetoric teacher seduced by worldly ambition and Manichaean philosophy, and the profound spiritual crisis that ultimately brought him to his knees before God in a Milan garden in 386 AD. Written as a direct and passionate address to God, the text pulses with an intimacy and psychological intensity that remains startling even seventeen centuries later.\n\nAugustine's prose — rendered here in a celebrated Penguin Classics translation — operates simultaneously as memoir, theology, and philosophy, weaving personal confession with deep meditations on memory, time, free will, and the nature of the soul. His concept of the restless heart, captured in the iconic opening lines, presents a vision of human longing that has resonated across millennia, influencing thinkers from Thomas Aquinas to Hannah Arendt. This is not merely a document of personal faith but a cornerstone of Western thought — and for the reader willing to sit with its questions, it offers a mirror as unsettling and illuminating today as it was in the age of the Roman Empire.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49342775984347,"sku":"2026200016173-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/2232f363-5fe2-4e24-93ef-2584be2ec4bd.png?v=1790049183","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200016173-secondhand-confessions","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}