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Episode 99: The Boy Who Stole Pears (Augustine's Confessions, Books 1-7)

Literature and History

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Augustine's Confessions

St. Augustine's Confessions has thirteen chapters or books. It is most famous as an autobiographical conversion narrative. But the book is more than a tell-all record of a man's mistakes and subsequent conversion. The Confessions itself is a long, continuous prayer addressed to the Christian God.

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