7 novels & 3 short stories: Lost Horizon, The Passionate Year, The Dawn Of Reckoning, Murder At School, And Now Good-Bye, Contango, Knight Without Armour

This first volume of the James Hilton collection contains 7 novels and 3 short stories by this acclaimed English novelist,It includes Lost Horizon, probably his best known work, made into movies, and best remembered as the origin of Shangri-La, a fictional utopian lamasery high in the mountains of Tibet..Admired by Sigmund Freud, his books are sometimes characterised as sentimental and idealistic celebrations of English virtues. This is true of Mr. Chips, but some of his novels had a darker side. Flaws in the English society of his time – particularly narrow-mindedness and class-consciousness – were frequently his targets. The complete list of novels and short stories in this first volume is as follows (the collection is arranged in chronological order of publication):The Passionate YearThe Dawn Of ReckoningMurder At SchoolAnd Now Good-ByeContangoKnight Without Armour Lost Horizon*****It’s a Crazy WorldThe FailureThe Bat King