Lost Horizon old, the doctor had told Rutherford, "Most old of anyone I have ever seen," implying that it was Lo-Tsen, aged drastically by her departure from Shangri-La. The narrator wonders whether Conway can find his way back to his lost paradise. The book, published in 1933, caught the notice of the public only after Hilton's "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" was published in 1934. "Lost Horizon" became a huge popular success and in 1939 was published in paperback form, as Pocket Book #1. Because of its number-one position in what became a very long list of pocket editions, "Lost Horizon" is often mistakenly
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