'Making Sophomores Reading Adults in a Democracy'. ^ Hilton, James('Glen Trevor') 1900-1954 in Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature Vol.It was made into a film with the same title, with the screenplay by the author, in 1939. Adaptations Ī one-hour radio adaptation by James Hilton and Barbara Burnham was broadcast on the BBC National Programme on 6 April 1938, with a cast that included Emlyn Williams as the doctor, Edgar Norfolk, Gordon McLeod and Nan Marriott-Watson. Newcome despite only circumstantial evidence. We deliver the joy of reading in recyclable packaging with free standard shipping on US orders over 15. We personally assess every books quality and offer rare, out-of-print treasures.

The town's prejudice against Leni as a German leads them to convict her and Dr. ThriftBooks sells millions of used books at the lowest everyday prices. When Newcome's wife Jessica is killed under suspicious circumstances, both Dr. James Hilton’s novel takes the reader to the loftiest and least hospitable part of the earth’s surface, the Tibetan plateau, two miles high even in its lowest valleys, a vast, uninhabited, and largely unexplored region of wind-swept upland. His frustrations with his relationships with his wife and son lead to his developing an affair with a German dancer, Leni, whom the family takes on as a governess. Newcome is a beloved doctor in a small English town. Chips in its portrayal of small-town life through the eyes of an everyman protagonist. It is one of his more sombre works, portraying the tragic consequences of anti-foreign hysteria in England just before World War I.

We Are Not Alone is a 1937 novel by James Hilton. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 12 March 1937

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