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James Hilton


Born
in Leigh, Lancashire, England, The United Kingdom
September 09, 1900

Died
December 20, 1954

Genre
Literature & Fiction


James Hilton was an English novelist and screenwriter. He is best remembered for his novels Lost Horizon, Goodbye, Mr. Chips and Random Harvest, as well as co-writing screenplays for the films Camille (1936) and Mrs. Miniver (1942), the latter earning him an Academy Award.

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Average rating: 3.96 · 41,373 ratings · 4,246 reviews · 158 distinct works • Similar authors
Lost Horizon
3.95 avg rating — 23,299 ratings — published 1933 — 450 editions
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Good-Bye, Mr. Chips
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3.97 avg rating — 13,676 ratings — published 1934 — 316 editions
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Random Harvest
4.16 avg rating — 2,227 ratings — published 1941 — 116 editions
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips / To You...
3.81 avg rating — 644 ratings — published 1938 — 5 editions
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So Well Remembered
3.78 avg rating — 184 ratings — published 1945 — 43 editions
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Was It Murder?
3.51 avg rating — 156 ratings — published 1931
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Time and Time Again
3.80 avg rating — 136 ratings — published 1953 — 37 editions
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Good-bye, Mr. Chips and Oth...
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Nothing So Strange
3.61 avg rating — 132 ratings — published 1947 — 19 editions
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Feliz Navidad, Señor Chips
3.71 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 1938 — 3 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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Polls

May 2016 New School Group Read

1972, Watership Down by Richard Adams, 478 pages
 
  29 votes, 13.7%

1903, The Call of the Wild by Jack London, 172 pages
 
  26 votes, 12.3%

 
  26 votes, 12.3%

 
  22 votes, 10.4%

 
  20 votes, 9.5%

 
  18 votes, 8.5%

1913, Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, 134 pages
 
  14 votes, 6.6%

1957, On the Beach by Nevil Shute, 296 pages
 
  13 votes, 6.2%

1993, Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh, 448 pages
 
  11 votes, 5.2%

 
  10 votes, 4.7%

1922, Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis, 356 pages
 
  7 votes, 3.3%

1936, Mephisto by Klaus Mann, 272 pages
 
  6 votes, 2.8%

1924, We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 225 pages
 
  4 votes, 1.9%

1933, Lost Horizon by James Hilton, 241 pages
 
  3 votes, 1.4%

1989, The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay, 544 pages
 
  2 votes, 0.9%

211 total votes
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