Each month ChristianAudio.com offers a book for free. This month's book is The Confessions of Saint Augustine, read by Simon Vance. The audio book currently sells on Amazon.com for $22.02, so free is certainly a very good price. I have not listened to this audio book yet, but I have listened to others by Simon Vance and he has always done a very good job with the narration. The recording is produced by Hovel Audio, so it is a quality production.
From Wikipedia:
Summary
The works outline Augustine's sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity. It is widely seen as the first Western autobiography ever written, and was an influential model for Christian writers throughout the following 1000 years of the Middle Ages. It is not a complete autobiography, as it was written in his early 40s, and he lived long afterwards, producing another important work (City of God); it does, nonetheless, provide an unbroken record of his development of thought and is the most complete record of any single individual from the 4th and 5th centuries. It is a significant theological work. In the work St. Augustine writes about how much he regrets having led a sinful and immoral life. He discusses his regrets for following the Manichaean religion and believing in astrology. He writes about Nebridius's role in helping to persuade him that astrology was not only incorrect but evil, and St. Ambrose's role in his conversion to Christianity. He shows intense sorrow for his sexual sins, and writes on the importance of sexual morality. He also mentions that his favorite subject in school was mathematics because it was concrete and more rigorously defined than other subjects. The book is thought to be divisible into chapters which symbolize various aspects of the Trinity and trinitarian belief.
The files consist of 10 35mb files, for a total of 12 hrs and 48 minutes.
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