《消失的地平線》敘述了英國駐巴基斯坦的領事康維及助手馬林森上尉、法國女布林克羅小姐、美國人巴納德在飛機失事后的神奇之旅。
狹長的藍月亮山谷內隱藏著世外桃源般神秘靈和的香格里拉,它僅通過馬幫與外界聯系,這里有翠玉似的草旬、明鏡般的湖泊、豐富的金礦、漂亮的寺廟和其它教派的廟宇,萬物深深沉浸在寧靜的喜樂中,生活在此的人們都很長壽,保持著大自然之間偉大的調和,每個人的生活都被瑞祥與幸福所灌滿。
《消失的地平線》
20世紀世界上最暢銷的小說之一
英國霍桑登文學獎獲獎作品
令人追尋至今的“香格里拉”的起源
最佳的文學經典讀物 最好的語言學習讀本
1. 經典著作。
2. 有助于提高文學素養和英文水平。
詹姆斯·希爾頓( James Hilton,1900—1954),英國著名暢銷書作家,因創作以香格里拉為主題的小說《消失的地平線》聞名于世。1900 年9 月9 日生于英格蘭,青年時代曾就讀于劍橋大學,1954 年12 月20 日因癌癥在美國去世。
CONTENTS
PROLOGUE
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
EPILOGUE
Cigars had burned low, and we were beginning to sample the disillusionment that usually afflicts old school friends who have met again as men and found themselves with less in common than they had believed they had. Rutherford wrote novels; Wyland was one of the Embassy secretaries; he had just given us dinner at Tempelhof—not very cheerfully, I fancied, but with the equanimity which a diplomat must always keep on tap for such occasions. It seemed likely that nothing but the fact of being three celibate Englishmen in a foreign capital could have brought us together, and I had already reached the conclusion that the slight touch of priggishness which I remembered in Wyland Tertius had not diminished with years and an M.V.O. Rutherford I liked more; he had ripened well out of the skinny, precocious infant whom I had once alternately bullied and patronized. The probability that he was making much more money and having a more interesting life than either of us,gave Wyland and me our one mutual emotion—a touch of envy.
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