Lost Horizon (novel)

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adventure novel fantasy novel novel

Lost Horizon (novel) is a 1933 fantasy-adventure book by James Hilton that introduced the utopian lamasery of Shangri-La, a hidden valley in the Himalayas where people age slowly and live in serene harmony.

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Label	Occurrences
Lost Horizon	11
Lost Horizon (novel) canonical	3
Lost Horizon (1933 novel)	2
High Lama in "Lost Horizon"	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	adventure novel ⓘ fantasy novel ⓘ novel ⓘ
adaptedInto	Lost Horizon ⓘ surface form: Lost Horizon (1937 film) Lost Horizon (1973 film) ⓘ radio drama adaptations ⓘ stage musical adaptations ⓘ
author	James Hilton ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United Kingdom ⓘ
feature	hidden valley isolated from the world ⓘ people age slowly in Shangri-La ⓘ
firstEditionFormat	hardcover ⓘ
followedBy	Random Harvest ⓘ
genre	adventure ⓘ fantasy ⓘ utopian fiction ⓘ
hasISBN	978-0-06-211372-6 ⓘ
hasPageCount	approximately 300 pages ⓘ
influenced	popular concept of Shangri-La as earthly paradise ⓘ
introducedConcept	Shangri-La ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
literaryMovement	interwar British fiction ⓘ
mainCharacter	Barnard ⓘ Chang ⓘ High Lama ⓘ Hugh Conway ⓘ Mallinson ⓘ Miss Brinklow ⓘ
narrativeFrame	told through a frame story ⓘ
narrativePerspective	third-person narration ⓘ
notableFor	depiction of a hidden utopian community ⓘ popularizing the term Shangri-La ⓘ
plotElement	airplane hijacking ⓘ discovery of hidden valley ⓘ utopian lamasery ⓘ
precededBy	And Now Goodbye ⓘ
publicationDate	1933 ⓘ
publisher	Macmillan Publishers ⓘ
setIn	Himalayas ⓘ Shangri-La ⓘ Tibet Autonomous Region ⓘ surface form: Tibet
theme	Western civilization and decline ⓘ pacifism ⓘ spirituality ⓘ the passage of time ⓘ the search for meaning ⓘ utopia ⓘ
timePeriodOfSetting	interwar period ⓘ

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Sondra Bizet in Lost Horizon → appearsIn → Lost Horizon (novel) ⓘ

subject surface form: Sondra Bizet