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Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips

by James Hilton

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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 vote
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 vote
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 |  
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When you are getting on in years (but not ill, of course), you get very sleepy at times, and the hours seem to pass like lazy cattle moving across a landscape.
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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.

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