Lost Horizon: A Novel [Paperback]

James Hilton’s famous utopian adventure novel, and the origin of the mythical sanctuary Shangri-La, receives new life in this beautiful reissue from Harper Perennial. A book that the New Yorker calls “the most artful kind of suspense . . . ingenuity [we] have rarely seen equaled,”Lost Horizoncaptured the national consciousness when first published in the 1930s, and Frank Capra’s 1937 film adaptation catapulted it to the height of cultural significance. Readers of Mitchell Zuckoff’s harrowing history of a real-life plane crash in Dutch New Guinea,Lost in Shangri-La, as well as fans of novels ranging fromThe Man Who Would Be KingtoSeven Years in TibettoState of Wonderwill be fascinated and delighted by this milestone in adventure fiction, the world’s first look at this sanctuary above the clouds. The new Perennial edition also features a bonus essay onLost HorizonbyDon’t Know Much About Historyauthor Kenneth C. Davis.

Originally published in 1933,Lost Horizongained unrivaled popularity from coast to coast, particularly after Frank Capra's spellbinding 1937 film introduced audiences nationwide to its stunning tale of revolution, utopia, emotion, and adventure set in a hidden mountaintop escape known only as Shangri-La.

When an uprising in Baskul forces a small group of English and American residents to flee, their plane crash-lands in the far western reaches of the Tibetan Himalayas. There, the bewildered party finds themselves stranded outside the protective borders of the British Empire, and discovers access to a place beyond the bounds of the imagination—a legendary paradise, the mystic monastery Shangri-La.

New P.S. Edition featuring an essay by Kenneth C. Davis, author ofDon't Know Much About^®HistoryandTwo-Bit Culture: The Paperbacking of America.