《消失的地平线》叙述了英国驻巴基斯坦的领事康维及助手马林森上尉、法国女布林克罗小姐、美国人巴纳德在飞机失事后的神奇之旅。
狭长的蓝月亮山谷内隐藏着世外桃源般神秘灵和的香格里拉,它仅通过马帮与外界联系,这里有翠玉似的草旬、明镜般的湖泊、丰富的金矿、漂亮的寺庙和其它教派的庙宇,万物深深沉浸在宁静的喜乐中,生活在此的人们都很长寿,保持着大自然之间伟大的调和,每个人的生活都被瑞祥与幸福所灌满。
《消失的地平线》
20世纪世界上最畅销的小说之一
英国霍桑登文学奖获奖作品
令人追寻至今的“香格里拉”的起源
最佳的文学经典读物 最好的语言学习读本
1. 经典著作。
2. 有助于提高文学素养和英文水平。
詹姆斯·希尔顿( James Hilton,1900—1954),英国著名畅销书作家,因创作以香格里拉为主题的小说《消失的地平线》闻名于世。1900 年9 月9 日生于英格兰,青年时代曾就读于剑桥大学,1954 年12 月20 日因癌症在美国去世。
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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