Lost Horizon (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: James Hilton
- First Published: 1933
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Adventure
- Time of Work: 1931
- Setting: Tibet
- Genres: Long fiction, Adventure, Fantasy, Utopian fiction
- Subjects: Values, Traveling or travelers, Prisoners, Missions or missionaries, 1930’s, Fantasy, Kidnapping, Mysticism, China or Chinese people, Monasteries, monks, or monasticism, Buddhism, Utopias, Diplomacy or diplomats, Himalayas
- Locales: Shangri-La, Tibet
Characters Discussed
Hugh Conway, a charming, brilliant man—tall, bronzed, with short brown hair and blue eyes—who is a veteran of ten years of unspectacular work in the British Consular Service. He is found by his friend Rutherford in a mission hospital suffering from fatigue. He relates how he was kidnapped and flown to Shangri-La, a peaceful lamasery in the high Himalayas, where the ancient and wise High Lama hoped to preserve a record of the culture of Western civilization against its total destruction by modern warfare. When the aged High Lama knew he was about to die,...
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