What is Lost Horizon (novel)?
{{Italic title}} {{about|the book '''Lost Horizon'''|other meanings|Lost Horizon (disambiguation)}} {{redirect|Shangri-La}} {{Refimprove}} {{Infobox book| | name = Lost Horizon | title_orig = | translator = | image =Lost Horizon postcard promotion 1937.JPG | caption = postcard promotion 1937 | author = [[James Hilton (novelist)|James Hilton]] | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United Kingdom | language = English | series = | genre = Fantasy, [[Fiction]], [[novel]], [[Adventure novel|adventure]] | publisher = [[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan]] | release_date = 1933 | media_type = Print (hardback & paperback) | pages = | isbn = 978-1-84024-353-6 |isbn_note= (UK)<br />{{ISBN|978-0-06-059452-7}} (US) | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} '''''Lost Horizon''''' is a 1933 [[novel]] by English writer [[James Hilton]]. In this book, Hilton saw a special place high in the mountains of [[Tibet]]. It was a [[utopia]]n city where people could live to be hundreds of years old. This perfect place was called '''Shangri-La'''. ==Plot summary== ===Overview=== Hugh Conway is a member of the British diplomatic service. He finds inner peace, love, and a sense of purpose in [[Shangri-La]]. People there live a very long time. One theme of the book is the possibility of another world war and war preparations. This was actually happening at the time. The story is similar to travel stories in the [[Tibet]]an borderlands by [[Joseph Rock]] in the ''[[National Geographic]]'' magazine. The remote communities he visited, such as [[Muli Tibetan Autonomous County|Muli]] are similar to Hilton's fictional Shangri-La. The Muli town of [[Zhongdian]] has its name to Shangri La (Chinese: Xianggelila). The book describes how war on the ground would move into the air. Life and all special things could be lost, even history. Maybe Shangri-la would protect these important things for later when the world was tired of war. That was the real purpose of the city. Conway survived the trench warfare of [[WWI]]. This strongly affected his emotion