[Wills] renders Augustine's famous and influential text in direct language with all the spirited wordplay and poetic strength intact. <br>- Los Angeles Times <br> [Wills's] translations . . . are meant to bring Augustine straight into our own minds; and they succeed. Well-known passages, over which my eyes have often gazed, spring to life again from Wills's pages. <br>-Peter Brown, The New York Review of Books <br> Augustine flourishes in Wills's hand. <br>-James Wood <br> A masterful synthesis of classical philosophy and scriptural erudition. <br>- Chicago Tribune