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Goodbye Mr Chips: The heart-warming classic that inspired three film adaptations
James Hilton
Fiction, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Humour
The beloved classic novel about an unforgettable teacher, perfect for fans of DEAD POETS SOCIETY, SOCIETY, STAND AND DELIVER and MR HOLLAND'S OPUS.
Mr Chipping is a quiet, unassuming teacher at Brookfield Grammar School - a wholly conventional schoolteacher who never veers from his proscribed routines. Until the day he meets Katherine, who charms him and his students and teaches Mr Chipping that education is about more than just the hours spent in the schoolroom. As his love for Katherine blooms, Mr Chipping develops a sense of humour and a broad view of his role as a teacher and a friend to his students, becoming the beloved 'Mr Chips' to generations of schoolboys.
Sweeping across four decades, GOODBYE, MR CHIPS features an extraordinary period of history, from the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s to Hitler's rise to power in the 1930s, and demonstrates that, through it all, love and a good sense of humour can make all the difference.
GOODBYE, MR CHIPS is the beloved classic of generations of readers, and sure to delight people of all ages.
Praise for Goodbye Mr Chips: The heart-warming classic that inspired three film adaptations
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Here is the triumphant proof that a little book can be a great book. Mr. Chips deserves a place in the gallery of English characters. Never have I known more beautifully rendered a man at peace with life, a finer setting forth of what happy dreams may come when you are old and grey and full of sleep. - The Evening Standard
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One lays down the book with the satisfaction that comes from contemplation of a piece of work supremely well done. This is too good a book to be borrowed . . . it should be bought - Punch
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A minor miracle. - New York Times
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One of the most endearing creations of modern fiction - Telegraph
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The story of a gentle man among gentlemen - Guardian
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A masterpiece - New York Herald Tribune
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A tiny, catch-in-the-throat story... perfectly done. - The New Yorker
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