Woman, a Christian missionary Conway, a soldier who had taught at Oxford after This manuscript makes up the rest of the story.įour people are on board the hijacked plane – there is a Happened to Conway, and provides him with a manuscript recording what Conway told

Once they are alone the novelist confides to his friend that he does know what To after it was commandeered – the passengers mysteriously disappeared. But nobody knows where the plane was taken Suspected – their mutual friend from Oxford, Hijacking that took place in Baskul in Persia, and learns that – as he Rutherford, a novelist friend of the narrator’s, enquires about a plane Things often do, to questions about mutual friends and what has become of them. Lost Horizon begins with a frame narrative, detailingĪn after-dinner discussion between old school friends that leads, as these Our main character, anĮnglishman named Conway, suffers acutely from his time in the trenches. Slaughter, which in large part contributed to a great feeling of decline, both culturalĪnd spiritual, which permeate Lost Horizon. Most significant is the First World War and the experience there of grinding The end of the British Empire, are also key points of context. Wars between China and Japan, and the beginnings of To power in Germany – and the bulk of its action takes place in 1931, a year no The book was published in 1933 – the year that Hitler came A painting by Nicholas Roerich, a Russian artist working in India’s Himalayas at the same time as Lost Horizon is set.

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