Lost horizon : a novel / James Hilton.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Harper Perennial, [2012]Edition: Reissued in 2012, paperbackDescription: 241, 15 pages ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780062113726
- 0062113720
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Main Library | Fiction | Adult Display - Second Floor | Hilton, James | May Day -May 2024 | Available | 33111009675139 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"The most artful kind of suspense. . . ingenuity I have rarely seen equaled." -- The New Yorker
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.
Originally published in hardcover: William Morrow, 1933. First Perennial ed. published 2004, reissued in 2012.
Includes essay "Shangri-La" by Kenneth C. Davis, and discussion questions.
Includes bibliographical references.
Following a plane crash in the Himalayan mountains, a lost group of Englishmen and Americans stumble upon the dream-like, utopian world of Shangri-La, where life is eternal and civilization refined.