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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. All time favorite (  )edwina1 | Mar 9, 2009 |   This is the delightful story of an English Schoolmaster who falls in love with a younger woman in his middle age. She transforms his outlook and the crusty old Latin teacher becomes something of a wit and social favourite. Her early death from that hazardous illness childbirth! adds a certain poignancy to the story. After retirement he is called back into service as acting Headmaster during the war. This book was made into a marvellous film with the wonderful Robert Donat in the title role. Utterly enchanting. As I read the book I pictured Robert Donat and it added to my reading of the story. For both book and film: 5 Stars ( )TheTortoise | Nov 29, 2008 | 1  A light emotion puller of a book that I read in an afternoon. All the same, Mr Chips is memorable as a humourous, disciplined and kind person making Brookfield more that just a school for generations of young boys. Thank you Mr Barker if you every read this. Miro | Jun 1, 2008 | 1 3101. Good-bye, Mr. Chips, by James Hilton. This was written in 1933, and is on the 1955 Starrett list of books he picked would "live." I was amazed by how touched I was by it. So economical a treatment of the theme of a beloved teacher at an English boys' school compared to R. F. Delderfield's more verbose To Serve Them All My Days (read by me 26 July 1996). This is an exceptionally good book which I liked very much. (read Aug. 8, 1998) ( )Schmerguls | Dec 12, 2007 | hyperpat | Oct 24, 2007 | 0.340 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0553273213, Paperback)Full of enthusiasm, young English schoolmaster Mr. Chipping came to teach at Brookfield in 1870. It was a time when dignity and a generosity of spirit still existed, and the dedicated new schoolmaster expressed these beliefs to his rowdy students. Nicknamed Mr. Chips, this gentle and caring man helped shape the lives of generation after generation of boys. He became a legend at Brookfield, as enduring as the institution itself. And sad but grateful faces told the story when the time came for the students at Brookfield to bid their final goodbye to Mr. Chips.There is not another book, with the possible exception of Dickens's A Christmas Carol, that has quite the same hold on readers' affections. James Hilton wrote Goodbye, Mr. Chips in loving memory of his schoolmaster father and in tribute to his profession. Over the years it has won an enduring place in world literature and made untold millions of people smile--with a catch in the throat. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:52 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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