Description The modern classic about an idealistic British schoolmaster\'s influence on his students: "A minor miracle" ( The New York Times ).
Hilton\'s writing is known for its depiction of English life between the two world wars, its celebration of English character, and its honest portrayal of life in the early twentieth century..
Chips (1934) launched his career as a celebrated author.
After attending Cambridge University, Hilton worked as a journalist until the success of his novels Lost Horizon (1933) and Goodbye, Mr.
About the Author James Hilton (1900-1954) was a bestselling English novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter.
Based on 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.
But Chips has been inspired as well--by 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 shaped lives.
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 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.
Description The modern classic about an idealistic British schoolmaster\'s influence on his students: "A minor miracle" ( The New York Times )
