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image:LostHorizon.jpg|right|thumb|The cover of the 1961 paperback edition Lost Horizon is a fantasy adventure novel by James Hilton. Hugh Conway, a veteran member of the British diplomatic service, finds inner peace, love, and a sense of purpose in Shangri-La, a utopian lamasery high in the Himalayas in Tibet whose inhabitants also enjoy longevity. The book, published in 1933, was a huge success. In 1939 it was chosen to be the first novel published in paperback form, as Pocket Book #1. President Franklin D. Roosevelt named the Presidential hideaway in Maryland after Shangri-La (it has since been renamed Camp David.) The book has been made into two films:
Another very different film with the same title Lost Horizon (2000) has the original Spanish title La Cabecita rubia, and is the work of Argentinian director Luis Sampieri. It has been compared to Fellini's La Strada. A BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Hilton's novel in three hourly episodes was broadcast in 1981 <!-- date requires confirmation --> Category:1933 books Category:British novels Category:English novels This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Lost Horizon".
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