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Confessions (Williams, Hackett Signature Edition)
HACKETT SIGNATURE EDITION: Thomas Williams's acclaimed translation of Augustine's Confessions is now available in a new premium hardcover edition as part of Hackett Publishing's Signature Editions collection. The new hardcover includes the original translation, introduction, footnotes, and appendices. The Signature Edition features Smyth sewn bindings, a black satin ribbon marker, acid-free 50# cream-colored paper, and more.
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HACKETT SIGNATURE EDITION: Thomas Williams's acclaimed translation of Augustine's Confessions is now available in a new premium hardcover edition as part of Hackett Publishing's Signature Editions collection. The new hardcover includes the original translation, introduction, footnotes, and appendices.
The Signature Edition features:
- Smyth sewn bindings
- Hardcovers wrapped in FSC-certified material with linen-like embossing that mimics cloth
- Stamping on the front cover and spines in pigment foil color-matched to the endsheets
- A black satin ribbon marker
- Acid-free 50# cream-colored paper
Reviews of Thomas Williams' translation:
"The best overall translation of Augustine's Confessions to date. . . . Williams captures the immediacy of Augustine's prayer, the playfulness of his language, and (without striving too hard) the properly elevated poetry of the text. As priest and philosopher and an Anglican with a good sense of English, Williams understands Augustine from the inside. For the foreseeable future, this will be my go-to translation for the Confessions."
—Jared Ortiz, Hope College, in Catholic World Report
"Williams’s masterful translation satisfies (at last!) a long-standing need. There are lots of good translations of Augustine’s great work, but until now we have been forced to choose between those that strive to replicate in English something of the majesty and beauty of Augustine’s Latin style and those that opt instead to convey the careful precision of his philosophical terminology and argumentation. Finally, Williams has succeeded in capturing both sides of Augustine’s mind in a richly evocative, impeccably reliable, elegantly readable presentation of one of the most impressive achievements in Western thought—Augustine’s Confessions."
—Scott MacDonald, Professor of Philosophy and Norma K. Regan Professor in Christian Studies, Cornell University
About the Author:
Thomas Williams is Professor of Philosophy, University of South Florida.
