Synopsis
The classic story of English school life, by the celebrated popular novelist. Mr. Chipping (alias Chips) is a shy and somewhat reclusive scholar who takes a post as classics master at Brookfield, a small boarding school in the English countryside, and remains there for the rest of his life. Despite a brief, happy, and tragic marriage, he grows into the role of the consummate bachelor, cantankerous, fussy and eccentric, and greatly loved by the generations of boys who pass through his classes.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1994-12-01 | | Edition Description: | Reissue |
| Size | | Height: | 7.0 in | | Width: | 4.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 3.2 oz |
Publisher's Note
A schoolmaster plays a vital role in the lives of generations of English boys.
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 Dickenss 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.
Industry Reviews
"A little watercolor of the sentimental English school, and an excellent example of its type. No tears will flow over this story of a schoolmaster who gradually turned into a mythical salty character instead of a drone, but everybody will feel like crying, and that does us all good."
New Republic - Matthews (07/18/1934)
"Mr. Chips is a genuine creation and I am glad the story was written about him."
Saturday Review - William R. Benet (06/09/1934)
"Mr. Hilton has given us a tender, sweet story, the memory of which lingers."
Veale
"The book is a triumph in the art of that sentimentalism which the British like just after having been especially realistic. It can be guaranteed to hit almost every soft spot in the reading public."
Veale
"'Good-bye, Mr. Chips' is a minor miracle--one of those rare and living pieces of writing which transcend classification, which require no precedent and are certain to have no successful imitators....It has tenderness and humor, and smoothly avoids the pitfalls of sentimentality and bathos. Above all, it creates in Mr. Chips himself a memorable and living character."
Matthews
"The little tale of Mr. Chips dreaming away his last days within sight and sound of the school that has absorbed his life is very much a true story and very moving, although it trembles on the edge of an uncomfortable sentimentality once or twice."
Benet
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