Time and Time Again was James Hilton’s last novel. It was published the year before he died. It covers the rather ordinary life of a rather ordinary man.
Told in flashbacks, a diplomat outlines the big events in his life. They are basically a series of humiliations and disappointments.
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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.