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James Hilton’s famous utopian adventure novel, and the origin of the mythical sanctuary Shangri-La, receives new life in this beautiful reissue from Harper Perennial. A book that the New Yorker calls “the most artful kind of suspense . . . ingenuity [we] have rarely seen equaled,” Lost Horizon captured the national consciousness when first published in the 1930s, and Frank Capra’s 1937 film adaptation catapulted it to the height of cultural significance. Readers of Mitchell Zuckoff’s harrowing history of a real-life plane crash in Dutch New Guinea, Lost in Shangri-La, as well as fans of novels ranging from The Man Who Would Be King to Seven Years in Tibet to State of Wonder will be fascinated and delighted by this milestone in adventure fiction, the world’s first look at this sanctuary above the clouds. The new Perennial edition also features a bonus essay on Lost Horizon by Don’t Know Much About History author Kenneth C. Davis.
- Sales Rank: #9456 in Books
- Brand: Harper Perennial
- Published on: 2012-04-03
- Released on: 2012-04-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .61" w x 5.31" l, .45 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 272 pages
- Harper Perennial
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Novel by James Hilton, published in 1933. Hugh Conway, a veteran member of the British diplomatic service, finds inner peace, love, and a sense of purpose in Shangri-La, a utopian lamasery high in the Himalayas in Tibet. --The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature
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Originally published in 1933, Lost Horizon gained unrivaled popularity from coast to coast, particularly after Frank Capra's spellbinding 1937 film introduced audiences nationwide to its stunning tale of revolution, utopia, emotion, and adventure set in a hidden mountaintop escape known only as Shangri-La.
When an uprising in Baskul forces a small group of English and American residents to flee, their plane crash-lands in the far western reaches of the Tibetan Himalayas. There, the bewildered party finds themselves stranded outside the protective borders of the British Empire, and discovers access to a place beyond the bounds of the imagination—a legendary paradise, the mystic monastery Shangri-La.
New P.S. Edition featuring an essay by Kenneth C. Davis, author of Don't Know Much About® History and Two-Bit Culture: The Paperbacking of America.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
A timeless, haunting classic
By Whistlers Mom
The attack on Pearl Harbor shocked isolationist-prone Americans into the reality of a world on the brink of disaster, but the savvy, Empire-building English had been all too aware of the international dangers long before then. In 1933, James Hilton wrote of a civilization that was threatened as never before by power-mad dictators and their mindlessly destructive followers. His description is as powerful and chilling today as when it was written.
Hilton was a minister's son who was born in 1900 and died of cancer at the age of 54. He was a literary wunderkind who published his first novel at the age of twenty and went on to write a series of best-sellers, to win an Oscar for his screenplay "Mrs. Miniver" and to appear as a host on American television. He describes Hugh Conway (the protagonist of LOST HORIZON) as a Renaissance Man, but he had some claim to that title himself.
Conway (to my thinking) is an appealing man, but all of the characters in this book are cardboard stereotypes and I think that was deliberate. I suspect that the author didn't want the characters (and their relationships) to get in the way of the story of Shangri-la itself and its importance in the future of the human race. Although Hilton was a prolific (some say TOO prolific) writer, this book has the feel of one into which the author has poured his soul.
I think Hugh Conway WAS James Hilton - a sensitive, intelligent man who was famous and successful but who was never totally comfortable in his role. He was also a man of compassion and he had the typical well-bred Englishman's sense of responsibility toward the lower orders. In the midst of his own prosperity and fame, he saw the rise of Fascism and the Japanese invasion of China as tragedies - not just for the people directly affected - for all decent humans. Hugh Conway CARED, which is why this book continues to be as relevant as it was 80 years ago. It is a reminder of the brevity of life and the self-destructive stupidity of violence, bigotry, and cruelty.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Worth a Re-read, Great Escape Novel
By Geraldine
I was happy to see this story available as a Kindle book now. I had read it many years ago in book form and after seeing the movie again, decided to give it a re-read. It really is a touching, beautiful story for the most part and I do like the book version better overall than the movie. I thought the characters were better in the book than in the movie and I liked how the story began better too.
One thing that I've never thought "fit" in this story was how the pilot knocked out the original pilot and then threw him off the plane. Would this be how someone from a place like Shangri la would actually act? It seemed so violent to me, especially considering the battle that was going on on the ground at the time which almost certainly would have meant the death of the original pilot.
If you want to escape to a beautiful place for a while, at least in your mind, this is still a worthwhile read. I like to think that it's true about this being loosely based on the actual people of Hunza in Pakistan. How wonderful to think that there actually is or at least was, a place close to being this idyllic.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Still an excellent book.
By D. Steiner
This is a handsome reproduction of the original 1936 classic. I've purchased several to give away to people. There are a number of differences between the book and the first movie, but the movie sometimes make better sense than the book; in the movie the recalcitrant person is Conway's brother. This makes Conway's decision to leave even more difficult for him. Of course today satellites make a Shangri-La impossible to hide. Still, the idea of a place like Shangri-La is as attractive as ever, and the theme still makes one hope that such a place could exist. Hilton wrote 23 books and several were made into movies: Goodbye Mr. Chips, Random Harvest Mrs. Miniver and five more. Often called a sentimentalist, Hilton didn't mind the label, and I rather think of him as a optimist. We can use a little optimism.
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