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Saint Augustine
- A Life
- Narrated by: Alexander Adams
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 05-24-12
- Language: English
- Publisher: Random House Audio
- Whispersync for Voice-ready
Regular price: $14.00
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For centuries, Augustine's writings have moved and fascinated readers. With the keen eye of a writer whose own intellectual analysis won him a Pulitzer Prize, Gary Wills examines this famed fourth-century bishop and seminal thinker whose grounding in classical philosophy informed his interpretation of Christian doctrine.
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