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Saint Augustine
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Confessions (Oxford World's Classics)
by Saint Augustine
Augustine's Confessions, written around 397 AD, is often called the first true autobiography — and it still reads like one. Part memoir, part prayer, part philosophy, it's the searching, restless account of a brilliant man arguing his way toward God, and toward himself.