![]() ![]() Chips, Random Harvest - but nothing more enduring than the one that gave us Shangri-La: Lost Horizon Denver Post He produced a small handful of excellent popular novels - Goodbye, Mr. Hilton (1900-1954) is part of the vast company of largely forgotten good authors. ![]() 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 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 ![]() Expertly plotted and deftly written, Hilton's book suggests mysteries without spelling them out - and leaves us wanting more New York Times Lost Horizon introduced the world to a Tibetan paradise where people live extraordinarily long lives of peace, harmony and wisdom. The word has become part of the English language, the name of retirement bungalows from Devon to Durban of hotels and boarding houses promising rest and seclusion in every continent Guardian His utopia retains all its charm and, in his creation of Shangri-La, he added something permanently to the language Guardian Hilton's premise strikes a deep chord in today's 'everything is relative' society. ![]()
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