Its a magical book..believe me.. if you are sort of nostalgic person and you are emotionally attached with your old belongings...give this book a hand and i guarantee, you will not be disappointed. I love reading it from the very first word till the last ..I don't know if any of you have read this o...
Rating: 4.75* of fiveThe Book Report: Old Mr. Chipping, nearing ninety and still telling his hoary old jokes from sixty years ago to the newbies at Brookfields school, spends his last few days on earth wandering among the many well-furnished rooms in his head. We see the events of his entire career ...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tq4lxShangri-la? Turn north at the Big Foot...The re-read is in the form of a Auntie dramatisation. I remember loving this story as a child - I think there was a film made too. If only I could remember where I put my memory. ETA - We have the film in the bag - the ...
Hilton's Lost Horizon is often credited with being the origin of the Shangri-La myth, and indeed it is a compelling story. Written in the 1930s, the book is both a product of the turmoil and chaos created by the First World War and subsequent worldwide depression and anticipatory of the conflagrati...
It's the gentle story of a man who taught in a British private boys' school for many decades. I love the way Chips starts out as a very average sort of person and teacher. It's the experiences of life---the death of his wonderful wife, the tragedies of the war, the days, years spent teaching childre...
This is a fun read. They did a pretty good job with the film. Given that Hilton was a major screenwriter that makes sense. It is very Victorian in its feel, a sort of Kipling-esque yarn, in which depression era westerners find themselves in a version of paradise. The place is rather communistic, wit...
[This note was made in 1983:]. I also read Hilton's Lost Horizon, which I found surprisingly brief and dry (in comparison, I suppose, with the lush film versions which formed my idea of it).
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