A short but very beloved book. You fall in-love with the Chips character and the wonderful world an English boys prep school. No doubt the inspiration many other stories centered on this kind of idea. A book highly influential to my becoming a teacher. ( )

Heart-warming short story of Mr Chipping's years as a teacher at Brookfield. ( )

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All time favorite ( )

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 ( )

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.

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) ( )

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A joy to read. A real feel good story ( )

"A tender and gentle story as warming to the heart and as nourishing to the spirit as any I can remember". The story of Mr. Chips, who over the years became the beloved and humorously mellow headmaster of Brookfield, an English boy's school. As warm and gently humorous a story as I've seen, with an ending to make glad and sad the heart. ( )