James Boyd White invites readers to join him in a close and engaged encounter with St. Augustine's Confessions. He offers an accessible guide to reading the text in Latin-even for those who have never studied the language-guiding readers to experience the immediacy, urgency, and vitality of Augustine's writing. Let in the Light offers a better way to read a work of literature of enormous and enduring importance. White argues that our easy familiarity with the English language and the inevitable distance and distortions associated with any translation create a barrier between Augustine and his readers. He is a lively, clear, and engaging writer, and the book is extremely sophisticated about literary criticism but wears its sophistication lightly.