Mr Chipping is a quiet, unassuming teacher at Brookfield Grammar School. Wholly conventional, he never veers from his established routines. Until, that is, he meets Katherine, who charms him and his students and teaches Mr Chipping that education is about more than just the hours spent in the schoolroom. As his love for Katherine blooms, Mr Chipping develops a sense of humour and a broad view of his role as a teacher and a friend to his students, becoming the beloved 'Mr Chips' to generations of schoolboys.

Sweeping across four decades, Goodbye, Mr Chips features an extraordinary period of history, from the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s to Hitler's rise to power in the 1930s, and demonstrates that, through it all, love and a good sense of humour can make all the difference.

在《消失的地平线》一书中，四名西方旅客意外来到坐落在群山之中的香格里拉秘境。原本各自身为外交家、银行家、修女与大学毕业生的四个旅人，被命运捆绑在一起，在香格里拉遭遇了种种离奇事件。

香格里拉宛如一座世外桃源，在那里没有繁杂的琐事和无谓的纷争，陪伴人们的是肖邦的失传之曲，永不老去的少女，窗外熠熠生辉的卡拉卡尔山，和缓缓流动的时光。日月光辉庇佑下的香格里拉，究竟埋藏着怎样令人震惊的秘密？在当地长老的带领下，四名旅客一层层揭开了香格里拉之谜……

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"ONE OF THE NEATEST AND MOST EXCITING YARNS I HAVE EVER READ... the most artful kind of suspense ... ingenuity I have rarely seen equaled"
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LOST HORIZON is the tale of three men and a woman seeking escape from a political upheaval in the Orient. Their airplane crashes high on a Tibetan plateau. They are saved by a party of natives and taken to Shangri-La.
Finding themselves prisoners at first, then visitors, they soon become willing captives until they discover the secret of that hidden paradise.

《LOST HORIZON》(消失的地平线)是作家詹姆斯•希尔顿所著一本小说的情节，书名叫《消失的地平线》（Lost Horizon），首版发表于1933年。正是由于这本书的发表，在英语中多了一个新的词汇——“shangri-la”——香格里拉，这个词成了永恒宁静和平的象征。随着希尔顿的小说1937年后多次被拍成电影，那片神奇的土地和香格里拉的名字更是家喻户晓，引得半个多世纪以来无数探险家、旅游者、考古者，甚至淘金者纷纷寻找这个似乎是虚幻存在的地方，几乎忘记了那只是一部虚构小说中的地名。新加坡华侨巨商郭鹤年将他遍及全球的酒店集团命名为“香格里拉”。位于滇藏川地区东南部的云南省迪庆藏族自治州的中甸县甚至将自己的县名就改为“香格里拉”。