Lost Horizon

<p><strong>The most artful kind of suspense. . . ingenuity I have rarely seen equaled. -- <em>The New Yorker</em></strong></p><p><strong>Originally published in 1933 <em>Lost Horizon</em> gained unrivaled popularity from coast to coast 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.</strong></p><p>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.</p><br/>