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
Another Day in Paradise (novel) on an ever-tightening spiral to hell, his crimes escalating until they include murder. The plot, which highlights Bobbie's increasing dependence on the highs of violence, emphasizes a frightening reality. On January 27, 2006, in the Moscow-based alternative newspaper "the eXile", essayist John Dolan leveled charges of plagiarism against James Frey, author of "A Million Little Pieces", accusing him of lifting material from "Another Day in Paradise" and another Little work, "Steel Toes". Neither Frey, nor his publisher Random House, have addressed the allegations of plagiarism. Another Day in Paradise (novel) Another Day in Paradise is a novel by Eddie Little