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Hilton, James. Lost Horizon. New YorkWilliam Morrow and Company,1939.I read Lost Horizon for my mass report. The main characters in this story are Con manner, Mallinson, Barnard, and Miss Brinklow. Conway was a gentleman of thirty-seven years old who didnt have a married woman or any other family. Mallinson was a young man of somewhat twenty or so who was not married yet either. Barnard was a middle-aged man that was without a wife or family also. Miss Brinklow was a woman of around the age of fifty.This story was about four passengers on an aeroplane that was supposed to be spill to Peshawar from Baskul. While they were on the trip, they find that the fell wasnt keeping a straight course to Peshawar, so they went to the front to ask the pilot what was happening and they noticed that it wasnt the pilot who was supposed to be flying the aeroplane. When they tried to ask the pilot what was going on, he pointed a gun on them, so all they could do was ride the plane until he stopp ed.They finally came to a land afterward they had flown umpteen hours. The pilot was dying and in his last words he told them that there was a send out not far from where they were and that they could go there. non long on their journey they met some people who were from this place, which is cal direct Shangri-La, and these people led them there. When they got there, they were told that it would be about two months before there was a way for them to make the journey back to civilization. In these two months Conway and Chang, who was a cat-o-nine-tails that made their stay comfortable, talked a lot. In these talks Conway would ask many questions that Chang could not answer and this got Conway puzzled and made him think that there was something that was creation hidden. Almost after these two months were up Chang told Conway that the High Lama precious to see him and that this was an honor because he had never seen anyone that quickly after arriving there. When Conway was lectu re with the High Lama, he told him the story of the place and about the person who founded it. He also told him about the legend that this guy had never died and that when someone came to this place that there was a drug that they took that made them live longer than a normal person would.