James Langton Audiobooks

Alexander the Great endures as one of the most admired and emulated leaders in world history....

One of the world's foremost authorities on British portraiture and an irreverent and delightful expert for "Antiques Roadshow" serves up his secrets and his best stories in this audio collection.

The name Cro-Magnon inspires images of a snowbound world, mammoth hunting, and eerily alluring cave paintings. Who were these ancient people? In a word, they were us---the first anatomically modern humans.

The first of the three canticles in "The Divine Comedy," this 14th-century allegorical poem begins Dante's imaginary journey from Hell to Purgatory to Paradise with his sojourn among the damned. This version of the classic poem is the translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

As a satire, Flatland offers pointed observations on the social hierarchy of Victorian culture. However, the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions; in a foreword to one of the many publications of the novella, noted science writer Isaac Asimov described Flatland as "the best introduction one can find into the manner of perceiving dimensions."

In this provocative and compelling new work, the coauthor of the bestselling book and television series The Story of English shows how English became the language of the world.

In this groundbreaking new biography, based on more than 10,000 hitherto unavailable letters and diary entries, bestselling author Ferguson returns to his roots as a financial historian to tell the story of Siegmund Warburg, an extraordinary man whose austere philosophy of finance offers much insight today.

John Lanchester's brilliant survey of the current financial crisis explains how the booming global economy collapsed seemingly overnight.

Deftly weaving three main strands of argument into an artistic whole---the ethical and political, the aesthetic and mystical, and the metaphysical---one of the West's greatest philosophers explores the elements of the ideal community, where morality can be achieved in a balance of wisdom, courage, and restraint.

Hermann Hesse's famous and influential novel Siddhartha is perhaps the most important and compelling allegory produced in the last hundred years.