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 ...

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.” Originally Published: February 14, 2008 at ...

Lost Horizon So canny are the ... Whether it’s James Hilton’s original novel or Robert Riskin’s celluloid transmutation, the scripting contribution is one of the picture’s strongest assets.

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).

The word first appears in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon, written by English author James Hilton. ... Hilton had written his fiction in Woodford, England and never came to western China.

“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 ...

As Hilton’s Lost Horizon became dramatically literal, several travellers on our bus speak of how the journey reflects the novel’s otherworldly quest for things eternal.

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 ...