Lost Horizon

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“The most artful kind of suspense. . . ingenuity I have rarely seen equaled.” — The New YorkerOriginally published in 1933, Lost Horizon gained unrivaled popularity from coast to c oast, 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.This Harper Perennial edition includes a P.S. section featuring a bonus essay on Lost Horizon by Kenneth C. Davis, author of Don't Know Much About® History. Show more