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The Collected Novels Volume One: So Well Remembered, Random Harvest, and We Are Not Alone
The Collected Novels Volume One: So Well Remembered, Random Harvest, and We Are Not Alone
The Collected Novels Volume One: So Well Remembered, Random Harvest, and We Are Not Alone
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Three classic novels by James Hilton, about a world—and men—forever changed in the time between two world wars

In So Well Remembered, George Boswell, a respected lawyer and civic leader, possesses the skill and charisma to shine on the national stage. But ambition is not without a cost. When he must choose between the promise of a bright future and staying behind for the people who have come to depend on him, his decision comes at a shocking price in this story of a people pulled reluctantly toward modernity amid the farms and factories of Lancashire.

In Random Harvest, a veteran’s comfortable life is upended when long-buried memories of his time in the trenches of World War I come rushing back. This moving account of the trauma of war explores the courage required to find redemption in the face of the most overwhelming circumstances.

And in We Are Not Alone, brilliant but naïve country doctor David Newcome courts tragedy when he invites a stranger into his home—and his family is torn asunder as their country and the world outside are drawn into war.
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Release dateMay 21, 2013
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The Collected Novels Volume One: So Well Remembered, Random Harvest, and We Are Not Alone
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James Hilton

James Hilton (1900–1954) was a bestselling English novelist and Academy Award–winning screenwriter. After attending Cambridge University, Hilton worked as a journalist until the success of his novels Lost Horizon (1933) and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1934) launched his career as a celebrated author. Hilton’s writing is known for its depiction of English life between the two world wars, its celebration of English character, and its honest portrayal of life in the early twentieth century.

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