Pub Date: April 3, 2012
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Code: 1060
Features: Price on Product
Target Age Group: NA to NA
Physical Info: 0.80" H x 7.80" L x 5.30" W ( 0.45 lbs) 272 pages
BISAC Categories:
Fiction | Classics | Action and Adventure | Fantasy | Historical | Christian | Suspense | Religious | General | Romance | Contemporary | Science Fiction | Political | Literary | Military | Historical American | Thrillers | Visionary and Metaphysical
Description: "Lost Horizon," a novel by English writer Hilton, is best remembered as the origin of Shangri-La, a fictional utopian lamasery high in the mountains of Tibet.
Brief description:
James Hilton was the author of more than twenty novels, including the bestselling Good-bye, Mr. Chips. He was also a screenwriter, with credits including such classic films as Mrs. Miniver, which won an Academy Award for Best Screenplay in 1942, and Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent. Born in England in the year 1900, Hilton emigrated to the United States in the late 1930s. He died in 1954.
Review Quotes:
"The most artful kind of suspense...ingenuity I have rarely seen equaled." - The New Yorker
"Haunting....We warmly recommend this story" - Philadelphia Inquirer