Hilton's Books
- Catherine Herself, 1920
- Storm Passage, 1922
- The Passionate Year, 1924
- Dawn Of Reckoning (Rage In Heaven), 1925
- Meadows Of The Moon, 1926
- Terry, 1927
- The Silver Flame (Three Loves Had Margaret), 1928
- Murder at School (U.S. title: Was It Murder?), published under the pen-name Glen Trevor, 1931
- And Now Goodbye, 1931
- Contango (Ill Wind), 1932
- Knight Without Armour (Without Armor), 1933
- Lost Horizon, 1933
- Goodbye, Mr. Chips, 1934
- We Are Not Alone, 1937
- To You, Mr Chips, 1938
- Random Harvest, 1941
- The Story Of Dr. Wassell, 1944
- So Well Remembered, 1945
- Nothing So Strange, 1947
- Twilight Of The Wise, 1949
- Morning Journey, 1951
- Time And Time Again, 1953
Hilton's books are sometimes dismissed as sentimental 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. His novel We Are Not Alone, despite its inspirational-sounding title, is a grim story of legally approved lynching brought on by wartime hysteria in Britain.
Read more about this topic: James Hilton
Famous quotes containing the words hilton and/or books:
“The acorn’s not yet
Fallen from the tree
That’s to grow the wood,
That’s to make the cradle,
That’s to rock the bairn,
That’s to grow a man,
That’s to lay me.”
—Unknown. The Cauld Lad of Hilton or, The Wandering Spectre (l. 2–8)
“Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)