The modern classic about an idealistic British schoolmaster\'s influence on his students: A minor miracle ( The New York Times ).
Based on author James Hilton\'s experiences as a student at the Leys School, Cambridge, this short novel endures as a revelation of the difference one good teacher can make, and what the better emotions do toward making people important ( Kirkus Reviews )..
Chips , and provided the basis for two award-winning feature films, a stage musical, a radio play, and two television adaptations.
It was followed by a collection of stories, To You, Mr.
Chips has never been out of print.
Since it was first published in 1934 to international success, Goodbye, Mr.
But Chips has been inspired as well--by the unremarkable and the extraordinary alike, by his colleagues, by a woman who will change him forever, and not least, by his children, thousands of them, all boys.
Chips has shaped many young lives.
From his unpolished first years during the Franco-Prussian War through the radical changes of the twentieth century and the outbreak of the First World War, Mr.
Chips to his students.
Throughout his forty-three-year tenure at Brookfield, a good public school of the second rate in eastern England, Arthur Chipping has been Mr.
The modern classic about an idealistic British schoolmaster\'s influence on his students: A minor miracle ( The New York Times )
