Name: Lost Horizon (en Inglés)
Price: 22.69 USD
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Author: James Hilton
ISBN: 9781604449044

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

James Hilton

Editorial

Indoeuropeanpublishing.Com

Año

2018

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

352

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781604449044

Categorías

Aventuras de ficción

Lost Horizon (en Inglés)

James Hilton (Autor) · Indoeuropeanpublishing.Com · Tapa Blanda

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Lost Horizon is a novel by English writer James Hilton. It is best remembered as the origin of Shangri-La, a fictional utopian lamasery high in the mountains of Tibet.Hugh Conway, a veteran member of the British diplomatic service, finds inner peace, love, and a sense of purpose in Shangri-La, whose inhabitants enjoy unheard-of longevity. Among the book's themes is an allusion to the possibility of another cataclysmic world war brewing, as indeed it was at the time. It is said to have been inspired at least in part by accounts of travels in Tibetan borderlands, published in the National Geographic by the explorer and botanist Joseph Rock. The remote communities he visited, such as Muli, show many similarities to the fictional Shangri-La. One such town, Zhongdian, has now officially renamed itself as Shangri La (Chinese: Xianggelila) because of its claim to be the inspiration for the novel.The book explicitly notes that having made war on the ground man would now fill the skies with death, and that all precious things were in danger of being lost, like the lost histories of Rome ("Lost books of Livy"). It was hoped that overlooked by the violent, Shangri-la would preserve them and reveal them later to a receptive world exhausted by war. That was the real purpose of the Lamasary; study, inner peace and long life were a side benefit to living there.Conway is a veteran of the trench warfare of WWI, with the emotional state frequently cited after that war--a sense of emotional exhaustion or accelerated emotional aging. This harmonizes with the existing residents of the lamasary and he is strongly attracted to life at Shangri-La.

James Hilton

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Nació en Lancashire en 1900, hijo de un director. Sus libros más conocidos, Horizontes perdidos y Adiós, Señor Chips, fueron escritos durante los años treinta y se transformaron en éxitos de venta. Horizontes perdidos, se convirtió en una película de éxito de Hollywood en 1937. Durante un tiempo, Hilton fue el guionista mejor pagado en Hollywood y ganó un Premio de la Academia en 1942 por su trabajo en el guion de la Sra. Miniver. Hilton continuó escribiendo novelas a lo largo de su carrera. Murió en 1954.

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