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Lost Horizon (1937)
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Lost Horizon (1937)

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James Hilton, the author of Goodbye, Mr. Chips, a lovely and wistful novel about a beloved schoolteacher in an English boys’ school, imagines in Lost Horizon a secluded place in the glacial middle of Tibet, a place favored by what we would call an unusual micro-climate, where the nearby mountains shelter a valley and keep it warm and pleasant and perfec…

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