This is Volume 1 of the two volume set of Augustine's classic autobiography , CONFESSIONS, in the Latin original and an English translation. The format of this book is Latin on one page and the English translation on the facing page. 'There is no need to say much of the contents of this book. Some it will attract by its devotion, some by its philosophy perhaps; but all it will charm by its complete sincerity. The scenes of Augustine's early life stand out like pictures; and his mother lives before our mind's eye as if we had seen her in the flesh.' This is a reprint of William Watt's translation, corrected according to Knoll's text, with the help of the translations of Pusey (1838) and C. Bigg (Books I to IX; Methuen, 1897-1909) and the annotated text of J. Gibb and W. Mont gomery (Cambridge Patristic Texts, 1908).
