James Hilton
Hilton was a popular novelist who created two of the most durable archetypes of English popular fiction in the schoolmaster Chips and the lost paradise of Shangri-La. Goodbye Mr Chips and Lost Horizon are enduring British classics.
Works
- Goodbye Mr ChipsNovella of elderly schoolmaster's life and legacy at boys' school
- Lost HorizonAdventure novel about lost utopian Himalayan kingdom and its mystery
- Random HarvestNovel of amnesiac discovering love and identity across continents
- We Are Not AloneNovel about connection and redemption during wartime
- So Well RememberedNovel about community transformation and personal sacrifice in wartime