Confessions
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Confessions
Augustine tells God the story of his own life, from a stolen pear in boyhood to the garden in Milan where he heard a child’s voice say “take up and read.”
- Availability
- Available for delivery beginning June 2027.
- Often read in
- Grades 8–12
- First published
- c. 400
- This edition
- All thirteen books, in E. B. Pusey’s translation.
- Pages
- 256
- Prompts
- 13, one at the close of each book
From the book
A prompt from this edition.
Every book of the Commonplace Edition closes with a prompt.
Commonplace
Augustine’s prayer opens in praise, then meets a puzzle he cannot leave alone: “who can call on Thee, not knowing Thee?” Number each way he tries to answer it in the first paragraph. Does the last one settle the matter, or does he simply start calling and let the question lie?
At the close of Book I, Confessions.
The book
Made like the printed Frankenstein
Every title uses our standard page layout and is made to the same specification as the printed Frankenstein.
- Size7 × 10 inches
- Pages256
- BindingSewn in signatures, square back, cloth over 3 mm board
- CoverForest green book cloth, stamped in gold foil and blind
- PaperCream, 120 gsm
- EndpapersPrinted, with different art at front and back
- RibbonPale gold marker
- The pageSet in EB Garamond, with a ruled column in the outer margin and a line number every fifth line
- Prompts13, one at the close of each book
- MadeDesigned and typeset in Sagamore Hills, Ohio