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The Church Fathers · c. 246
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Cyprian of Carthage · c. 210–258
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What it is
A convert's account of his own change, set against a bleak survey of the world he left — the arena, the courts, the marriage market — written in the ornate style he soon abandoned.
Why it lasted
Cyprian's first Christian work and one of the few conversion narratives to survive between Paul and Augustine.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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