James Hilton

The gripping adventure story that invented Shangri-La, one of our most enduring literary mysteries. Flying out of India, a light aircraft is hijacked and flown into the high Tibetan Himalayas. The few passengers on board anxiously await their fate, among them Conway, a talented British consul. But on landing, they are unexpectedly conducted to a remote valley, a legendary paradise...

Full of action, suspense and thrills, Lost Horizon is one of the greatest classic adventure stories ever told. An eclectic group of English and Americans are airlifted out of Baskul in Asia when civil war takes hold. Their small plane crash-lands deep in the Himalayas, where they are rescued by a guide who leads them to a monastery called Shangri-La,...

Mr Chipping is a quiet, unassuming teacher at Brookfield Grammar School—a wholly conventional schoolteacher who never veers from his proscribed routines. Until the day he meets Katherine, who charms him and his students and teaches Mr Chipping that education is about more than just the hours spent in the schoolroom. As his love for Katherine blooms, Mr Chipping develops a...