The idea that precious things, such as beauty, or even texts and histories, would be lost in such cataclysm, was also central to the television series “Lost. In Lost Horizon, it is suggested that utopia (Shangri-la)–peace, happiness, and longevity–inhabits a Tibetan lamasery high in the mountainous wilderness, but the book’s idealism became overwhelmed in the rhetoric of war happening in real life. He and a novelist friend of his, Rutherford, attend a dinner in Berlin being hosted by another friend, Wyland, a secretary at the British embassy. One such motif was the idea of a lost paradise that held some sort of magical quality about it that everyone was just dying to get to, if they only knew the place existed in the first place. The story of a group of people who survive an airplane crash in Tibet and find shelter at a mysterious monastery is extremely. Plot Summary The prologueand later, the epilogueof James Hilton’s novel Lost Horizon are narrated by a neurologist. I took a special interest in the book when watching the television show “Lost,” which had numerous mythological and literary (and other) references in it, including to Lost Horizon. Though not really an unpopular book in need of rescue, it is quite old and probably not as widely read today as it was when it was published in 1933. I have this book on Kindle, but can’t pass up such a classic hard copy in good shape. I was happy to find this old book at the Value Village in Burquitlam. Lost Horizon by James Hilton Lost Horizon Lost Horizon: The Classic Tale Of Shangri-La Lost Horizon (Vintage Classics) BEST LOVED Books, THE HUNCHBACK OF.
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