James Hilton
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While attempting to escape a civil war, four people are kidnapped and transported to the Tibetan mountains. After their plane crashes, they are found by a mysterious Chinese man. He leads them to a monastery hidden in "the valley of the blue moon"-a land of mystery and matchless beauty where life is lived in tranquil wonder, beyond the grasp of doomed world. It is here, in Shangri-La, where destinies will be discovered and the meaning of paradise...
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First published in 1941, Random Harvest is a novel written by James Hilton. The novel was immensely popular, placing second on 'The New York Times' list of best-selling novels for the year.
It is set in the period immediately preceding the outbreak of the Second World War. It is told in the first person of Harrison, and by means of two extended external analepses tells the story of Charles Rainier, a wealthy businessman and politician, from the time...
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Full of enthusiasm, young English schoolmaster Mr. Chipping came to teach at Brookfield in 1870. It was a time when dignity and a generosity of spirit still existed, and the dedicated new schoolmaster expressed these beliefs to his rowdy students. Nicknamed Mr. Chips, this gentle and caring man helped shape the lives of generation after generation of boys. He became a legend at Brookfield, as enduring as the institution itself. And sad but grateful...
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Was It Murder? deals with the phenomenon of coincidence by posing the question of how likely it is that two brothers attending the same boarding school meet with two separate accidental deaths - and curious ones at that - within the same school year. In the manner typical of the Golden Age whodunnit, the solution is only presented in the final pages of the novel. Throughout the book, an amateur sleuth and a Scotland Yard detective vie with each other...
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El viejo señor Chipping ha sido el profesor de griego y latín en la escuela de secundaria Brookfield desde tiempos inmemoriales. Nadie recuerda cuándo llegó, ni cómo era de joven, ni si alguna vez se casó, pero su sentido del humor, su talante convencional, su característica forma de hablar y las anécdotas que ha protagonizado lo han convertido en un emblema de la institución y en una figura muy querida por alumnos, exalumnos y profesores....
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (154 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Mr. Chips is a shy and proper classics professor who teaches at an English all-boys school. He falls in love with a London dance-hall girl and decides to marry her. The couple makes Brookfield Academy for Boys its home and brightens the school with their unlikely union.
8) Lost horizon
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Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (134 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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Fleeing war-torn China, a small planeload of people are hijacked to an idyllic valley in the Himalayas where time has virtually stopped. There Conway, a British diplomat, falls in love with a beautiful woman, and is asked to remain in Shangri-La as its new leader.
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004, c1939.
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1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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A shy British school master named Mr. Chipping devotes his life to teaching "his boys" after the death of his lovely, energetic American wife Katherine. Told via flashbacks, the film features an aged Mr. Chipping looking back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who've touched his life over the years.