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A review by papidoc
Lost Horizon by James Hilton
4.0
A British group leaves India in the 1930s by plane, the plane goes down, and thereafter they find themselves in the fabled Shangri-La. In this valley of warmth and beauty in the midst of the Himalayan mountains, they find a people with astounding longevity leading lives of simplicity and wisdom and peace. They eventually find their way out of Shangri-La and back home, but Conway (the main character), consumed by regret for the peace that he left behind, returns in the end.
For me, the power of this novel was in the sense of potential peace that is evoked, and that is available to all of us. Metaphorically, I think of the journey each of us travels in search of our own Shangri-La. Toward that end, I am reminded of Nathaniel Hawthorne who said, “Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” Perhaps the same is true of our own Shangri-La...
For me, the power of this novel was in the sense of potential peace that is evoked, and that is available to all of us. Metaphorically, I think of the journey each of us travels in search of our own Shangri-La. Toward that end, I am reminded of Nathaniel Hawthorne who said, “Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” Perhaps the same is true of our own Shangri-La...