James Hilton’s Lost Horizon,” the adventure story about three men and a woman transported to Shangri-La, a mysterious utopia hidden deep in the mountains of Tibet, is one of the most enduring ...

In “Lost Horizon,” Hilton, too, warned of the outside world encroaching on his hidden paradise, although he was referring to the more serious threat of impending war.

Lost Horizon So canny are the ingredients that where credulity perhaps rears its practical head, audiences will be carried away by the histrionic illusion, skill and general Hollywood ledgerdemain ...

In other words, to a Shangri-La. Lost Horizon was a tale for its times. The story of Shangri-La itself is a modern one, told by the English novelist James Hilton in his novel Lost Horizon (1933).

Did Hilton not acknowledge Rock for fear of legal action? At the end of Lost Horizon, there is one telling paragraph where Hilton possibly hints toward the real influence for his novel.

——————– Fiction Lost Horizon, by James Hilton, $12.95 paperback Roger K. Miller, a former newspaper book- review editor, is the author of the novel “Invisible Hero.” ...

“Lost Horizon” gained bestseller status in 1935 after radio commentator Alexander Woollcott praised it over the airwaves. Hilton’s next novel, “Goodbye Mr. Chips,” was an even bigger ...

Since James Hilton imagined Shangri-La in his bestselling 1933 novel Lost Horizon, a host of Himalayan areas have laid claim to this earthly Eden. But only one place—Zhongdian in China’s ...

In other words, to a Shangri-La. Lost Horizon was a tale for its times. The story of Shangri-La itself is a modern one, told by the English novelist James Hilton in his novel Lost Horizon (1933).