Lost Horizon: The Annotated Edition

Description

James Hilton’s novel of 1933 was to make the name “Shangri-La” globally famous. It was a most unusual bestseller of the 1930s, winning the Hawthornden Prize in 1934. It was adapted as a Hollywood movie in 1937 which instantly transformed its author’s life.

Set in the little-known Tibet of the time, it explores an encounter between east and west when Conway, a British Foreign Service official, unexpectedly finds himself transported there. The text is here supported for the first time by a scholarly introduction and explanatory notes.