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Norton
11 January 2021
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There are times when Augustine seems all too self-consciously in control of his performance, but there are moments when the role of penitent sinner turned ecstatic worshipper ceases to be a role and becomes simply the naked truth of the man himself. The deep strength of Peter Constantine's translation is that he has matched Augustine's sincerity with his own.?

?JACK MILES, author of?

God: A Biography

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Translated by:  
Imprint:   Norton
Country of Publication:   United States
Volume:   0
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 130mm,  Spine: 18mm
Weight:   234g
ISBN:   9780393427998
ISBN 10:   0393427994
Series:   The Norton Library
Pages:   352
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Peter Constantine is the director of the Program in Literary Translation at the University of Connecticut, the publisher of World Poetry Books, and editor-in-chief of the magazine New Poetry in Translation. A prolific translator from several modern and classical languages, Constantine was awarded the PEN Translation Prize for Six Early Stories by Thomas Mann, the National Translation Award for The Undiscovered Chekhov, the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for his translation of The Bird Is a Raven by Benjamin Lebert, and the Koret Jewish Book Award and a National Jewish Book Award citation for The Complete Works of Isaac Babel.

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