James Hilton

James Hilton

1900–1954
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James Hilton was a British novelist whose 1933 adventure novel 'Lost Horizon' created the enduring myth of Shangri-La, a utopian hidden world that captured twentieth-century imagination.

Conway could not repress a feeling that was always his in the presence of any superb and indisputable competence. He was so used to being appealed to for help that mere awareness of some one who would neither ask nor need it was slightly tranquilizing, even amidst the greater perplexities of the future.

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Lost Horizon
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