Lost world Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket" (1838) has certain lost world elements towards the end of the tale. James Hilton's "Lost Horizon" (1933) enjoyed popular success in using the genre as a takeoff for popular philosophy and social comment. It introduced the name Shangri-La, a meme for the idealization of the lost world as a paradise. Similar books where the inhabitants of the lost world are seen as superior to the outsiders, are Joseph O'Neill's "Land under England" (1935) and Douglas Valder Duff's "Jack Harding’s Quest" (1939). Hergé also explores the theme in his comics "The Seven Crystal Balls" and "Prisoners
Paradise Lost in popular culture two-part adaptation by Michael Symmons Roberts was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 24 and 25 March 2018, with Ian McKellen as Milton, Frances Barber as Elizabeth, Simon Russell Beale as Satan, Jonathan Keeble as Beelzebub and Russell Dixon as God. "Paradise Lost" was adapted for the stage by The Vista Hills Theatre Troupe and performed as a two-act play, November 11 and 12, 2011, in El Paso, Texas. "Paradise Lost" was adapted into a musical by Sight and Sound Theaters in 2007 - 2008. The show combines elements from both Genesis (the creation of the world as well as