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James Hilton

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born

September 09, 1900 in Leigh, The United Kingdom

died

December 20, 1954

gender

male

genre

Literature & Fiction

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See also جيمس هيلتون.

James Hilton was an English novelist who wrote several best-sellers, including Lost Horizon and Goodbye, Mr. Chips.

Born in Leigh, Hilton was the son of John Hilton, the headmaster of Chapel End School in Walthamstow. He was educated at Leys School, Cambridge.

He wrote his two most remembered books while living in a rather ordinary semi-detached house on Oak Hill Gardens, Woodford Green. The house still stands, with a blue plaque marking Hilton's residence.

Hilton was married twice, first to Alice Brown and later to Galina Kopineck. Both marriages ended in divorce. He died in Long Beach, California from liver cancer.

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Books by James Hilton

Average rating: 3.80 · 6,743 ratings · 730 reviews · 29 distinct works

	Lost Horizon 3.82 avg rating — 4,406 ratings — published 1933 — 63 editions	My rating:
	Good-Bye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton, H.M. Brock (Illustrator), Edward Weeks (Foreword by) 3.75 avg rating — 1,847 ratings — published 1934 — 48 editions	My rating:
	Random Harvest 4.00 avg rating — 341 ratings — published 1941 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Nothing So Strange 3.62 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1947 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Time and Time Again 3.79 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1953	My rating:
	So Well Remembered 3.25 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1945 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Was It Murder? 3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1976 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Without Armor 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Story of Dr. Wassell 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1942	My rating:
	We Are Not Alone (Vintage Pocket Books, #118) 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1941 — 3 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by James Hilton

“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

24 people liked it

“There's only one thing more important... and that is, after you've done what you set out to do, to feel that it's been worth doing.”
― James Hilton, Random Harvest

tags: life

14 people liked it

“The right mixture of caring and not caring - I suppose that's what love is.”
― James Hilton, Nothing So Strange

tags: caring , love

14 people liked it

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Polls

what would you like to read for the september read

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

5 votes 41.7%

Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller

3 votes 25.0%

Goodbye Mr Chips by James Hilton

2 votes 16.7%

Dominic's Discovery by Gervase Phinn

2 votes 16.7%

Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones

0 votes 0.0%

Class by Jane Beaton

0 votes 0.0%

12 total votes

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