James Hilton (Author of Lost Horizon)
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James Hilton


Born
in Leigh, The United Kingdom
September 09, 1900

Died
December 20, 1954

Genre
Literature & Fiction


James Hilton (1900–1954) was a bestselling English novelist and Academy Award–winning screenwriter. After attending Cambridge University, Hilton worked as a journalist until the success of his novels Lost Horizon (1933) and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1934) launched his career as a celebrated author. Hilton’s writing is known for its depiction of English life between the two world wars, its celebration of English character, and its honest portrayal of life in the early twentieth century.

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Average rating: 3.96 · 40,148 ratings · 4,100 reviews · 179 distinct works • Similar authors
Lost Horizon
3.95 avg rating — 22,704 ratings — published 1933 — 404 editions
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Good-Bye, Mr. Chips
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3.97 avg rating — 13,229 ratings — published 1934 — 293 editions
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Random Harvest
4.16 avg rating — 2,176 ratings — published 1941 — 97 editions
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips / To You...
3.81 avg rating — 639 ratings — published 1938 — 5 editions
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So Well Remembered
3.78 avg rating — 179 ratings — published 1945 — 36 editions
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Good-Bye, Mr. Chips: And Ot...
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Time and Time Again
3.78 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 1953
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Nothing So Strange
3.60 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 1947 — 17 editions
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Feliz Navidad, Señor Chips
3.70 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 1938 — 3 editions
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Without Armor
4.11 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 1934 — 42 editions
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“People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.”
― James Hilton, Lost Horizon
tags: life, people, viewpoint
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“The right mixture of caring and not caring - I suppose that's what love is.”
― James Hilton, Nothing So Strange
tags: caring, love
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“Have you ever been going somewhere with a crowd and you're certain it's the wrong road and you tell them, but they won't listen, so you just have to plod along in what you know is the wrong direction till somebody more important gets the same idea?”
― James Hilton, Random Harvest
tags: choices, life
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