Confessions of St. Augustine

Saint Augustine, Edward Bouverie Pusey

ISBN: 9781547215447

Written around 400 AD, this is part autobiography and part extended prayer addressed directly to God. Augustine traces his early life, education, restless intellectual searching, and the relationships that shaped him, then moves into reflections on memory, time, and Scripture. It's widely considered the first true autobiography in Western literature, and it's the source of some of the most quoted lines in Christian writing.