β Scribed by James Hilton
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The modern classic about an idealistic British schoolmaster's influence on his students: "A minor miracle" (The New York Times).
Throughout his forty-three-year tenure at Brookfield, "a good public school of the second rate" in eastern England, Arthur Chipping has been Mr. Chips to his students. Beginning with his unpolished first years during the Franco-Prussian War, into the radical changes of the twentieth century and the outbreak of the First World War, Mr. Chips has shaped lives. But Chips has been inspired as wellβby the unremarkable and the extraordinary, by his colleagues, by a woman who changes him forever, and not least, by his children, "thousands of them, all boys."
Since it was first published in 1934 to international success, Goodbye, Mr. Chips has never been out of print. It was followed by a collection of stories, To You, Mr. Chips, and provided the basis for two award-winning feature films, a stage musical, a...
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