2006-08-23 05:03:35 · 6 answers · asked by ammu 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
The novel title is "LOST HORIZON", by James Hilton. Shangri-La is the name of an idealistic community where people never get old. Which makes me wonder why there were children and people of all ages there, if they never get old. Anyway...It is a moral novel about how people can change and be better, or can be corrupted by foreigners influence, but soon or later they have to pay and be punished for their mistakes. There has been two cinema versions: One is a wonderful interpretation of the novel...the other one, a musical, has to be watched more like a joke and a cartoon of the first one.
2006-08-23 05:44:19 · answer #1 · answered by Alexira 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lost Horizon by James Hilton
2006-08-23 14:29:08 · answer #2 · answered by deanjesse 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the novel is called "Lost Horizons" by James Hilton. However, Shangri-la is also in many other books. It now isn't an imaginary place, as many real places have been named after it.
Here's a plot summary:
"Hugh Conway, a veteran member of the British diplomatic service, finds inner peace, love, and a sense of purpose in Shangri-La, a utopian lamasery high in the Himalayas in Tibet whose inhabitants also enjoy longevity. Among the book's themes is the allusion of the possibility of another cataclysmic world war brewing."
2006-08-23 12:12:51 · answer #3 · answered by C. Menstein 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lost Horizon by James Hilton.
2006-08-23 12:11:34 · answer #4 · answered by Sick Puppy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lost Horizon by Hilton by the way BBC did an interesting program on this about people who have searched for it and a lost plane etc.
2006-08-24 11:26:03 · answer #5 · answered by kiss 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lost Horizon by James Hilton
I received this book in a easy reader's version when I was 10 and it still remains as one of my favourites 25 years later!
2006-08-23 12:34:01 · answer #6 · answered by TriniGirl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋