The perfect father's day novel - the adventure story that invented Shangri-La, one of our most enduring literary mysteries.
James Hilton was born in Lancashire in 1900, the son of a headmaster. His best known books, Lost Horizon and Goodbye Mr Chips, were written during the thirties, a period which afforded him great commercial success and enormous popularity. Lost Horizon was made into a blockbuster Hollywood film in 1937. For a time, Hilton was highest paid screen-writer in Hollywood and he won an Academy Award in 1942 for his work on the screenplay of Mrs. Miniver. Hilton continued to write novels throughout his career. He died in 1954.
Hilton's premise strikes a deep chord in today's 'everything is
relative' society. His utopia retains all its charm and, in his
creation of Shangri-La, he added something permanently to the
language
*Guardian*
Lost Horizon introduced the world to a Tibetan paradise where
people live extraordinarily long lives of peace, harmony and
wisdom. Expertly plotted and deftly written, Hilton's book suggests
mysteries without spelling them out - and leaves us wanting
more
*New York Times*
James Hilton invented the name Shangri-La for a paradise on earth
in a book that captured the imagination of a public dealing with
financial hardships and the threat of Nazism
*Observer*
More than 60 years after James Hilton wrote Lost Horizon, launching
one of the century's most enduring literary mysteries, the search
for paradise on earth has led to the mountains of south-west China…
Hilton intended it as a pacifist parable; Hollywood turned it into
a romantic blockbuster
*Guardian*
The important thing to note about this very fine novel - the tale
of an adventure in Tibet - is that it is unusual and the product of
a first-class mind...a wildly exciting story, nightmare, fantasy,
or what you will
*Daily Express*
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