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Goodbye mr chips novel6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() 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. 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." An episode in the novel in which Kathie argues with Chips that a boy who (it is hinted) has engaged in homosexual activity should be excused (because he is otherwise a nice little boy who was led astray at another school) is quietly dropped. On the night before their wedding, Katherine whispers Good-bye, Mr. James Hiltons classic tale of eccentric school. 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 is taken from an expression that appears twice in the novel. Goodbye, Mr Chips by James Hilton - downloadable audio (9781907416842) published by Canongate 20 April 2006. Throughout his forty-three-year tenure at Brookfield, "a good public school of the second rate" in eastern England, Arthur Chipping has been Mr. ![]()
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