Lost Horizon (1933) - James Hilton torrent

Category: Adults, Classic, Historical Fiction
Language: EnglishKeywords: 1930’s Himalayas Shangri-La
Written by James Hilton
Read by Michael de Morgan
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
· Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
· Release date: 12-20-10
· Publisher: Audible/RNIB Talking Books
This recording is not as claimed…it is not an Audible Production but an RNIB Talking Book, a charitable recording meant to be given free to those who qualify. I wonder how Audible can claim it and sell it? Copyright after the Audible summary says James Hilton, 2010. Hilton died 1954. His widow renewed it in 1960, his books are now in public domain.
Because it was recorded for the blind by a volunteer reader, do not expect a professional recording but except it for what it is…a classic novel from an era that created classic novels.
Hugh Conway saw humanity at its worst while fighting in the trenches of the First World War. Now, more than a decade later, Conway is a British diplomat serving in Afghanistan and facing war yet again—this time, a civil conflict forces him to flee the country by plane. When his plane crashes high in the Himalayas, Conway and the other survivors are found by a mysterious guide and led to a breathtaking discovery: the hidden valley of Shangri-La.
Kept secret from the world for more than two hundred years, Shangri-La is like paradise—a place whose inhabitants live for centuries amid the peace and harmony of the fertile valley. But when the leader of the Shangri-La monastery falls ill, Conway and the others must face the daunting prospect of returning home to a world about to be torn open by war.
Thrilling and timeless, Lost Horizon is a masterpiece of modern fiction, and one of the most enduring classics of the twentieth century.
The book was filmed in 1935 staring Ronald Coleman and Jane Wyatt. TV viewers in the 1960’s knew Jane Wyatt as the mother in Father Knows Best and as Mr. Spock’s mother on Star Trek.
· Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
· Release date: 12-20-10
· Publisher: Audible/RNIB Talking Books

This recording is not as claimed…it is not an Audible Production but an RNIB Talking Book, a charitable recording meant to be given free to those who qualify. I wonder how Audible can claim it and sell it? Copyright after the Audible summary says James Hilton, 2010. Hilton died 1954. His widow renewed it in 1960, his books are now in public domain.

Because it was recorded for the blind by a volunteer reader, do not expect a professional recording but except it for what it is…a classic novel from an era that created classic novels.

Hugh Conway saw humanity at its worst while fighting in the trenches of the First World War. Now, more than a decade later, Conway is a British diplomat serving in Afghanistan and facing war yet again—this time, a civil conflict forces him to flee the country by plane. When his plane crashes high in the Himalayas, Conway and the other survivors are found by a mysterious guide and led to a breathtaking discovery: the hidden valley of Shangri-La.

Kept secret from the world for more than two hundred years, Shangri-La is like paradise—a place whose inhabitants live for centuries amid the peace and harmony of the fertile valley. But when the leader of the Shangri-La monastery falls ill, Conway and the others must face the daunting prospect of returning home to a world about to be torn open by war.

Thrilling and timeless, Lost Horizon is a masterpiece of modern fiction, and one of the most enduring classics of the twentieth century.

The book was filmed in 1935 staring Ronald Coleman and Jane Wyatt. TV viewers in the 1960’s knew Jane Wyatt as the mother in Father Knows Best and as Mr. Spock’s mother on Star Trek.