Greene added 'Nothing reveals men's characters more than their Utopias. The 1937 Frank Capra film, which introduced most of the world to the idyllic pacifist paradise of 'Shangri-La' in the high Himalayas, starred Ronald Colman and Jane Wyatt (who Grahame Greene in 'The Spectator' called 'one of the dumber stars, who has read all the best books (this one included) and has the coy comradely manner of a not too advanced schoolmistress') along with Sam Jaffe as the High Lama.

Original jacket, priced $2.50, is 'very-good-minus' with chips to spine corners and some transfer of orange pigment to the rear panel. Small spot to cloth on rear cover (a cloth defect, not abuse), a fine copy in fine pictorial dust jacket (priced '7'6 / NET' at bottom of front flap) with a mild vertical crease to spine panel. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 570.

Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 419. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 45. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 812.

'Among utopian scholars' LOST HORIZONS 'has been generally neglected and characterized as an example of wishful thinking rather than a picture of what a possible utopian future might be like, but humanity's continuing search for peace, brotherhood, and long life makes it probable that it will continue to appeal as a popular novel.' - Fortunati and Trousson, eds., Dictionary of Literary Utopias, pp. 'LOST HORIZON is a novel that testifies to the extent of contemporary disillusionment, with hope for a better world having become a fragile, futile dream of seclusion. 1-281, original green cloth, spine panel stamped in gold.

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