Good-Bye Mr. Chips
Good-Bye Mr. Chips
Author: James Hilton
Desc: Mr. Hilton's classic story of an English schoolmaster. Mr. Chipping the classics master at Brookfield School since 1870 takes readers on a beguiling journey through the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Sometimes Chips as he is affectionately known is an old man who dreams by the fire; then he's a difficult young taskmaster schooling his students or a middle-aged man encountering the lovely Katherine whose "new woman" opinions work far-reaching changes in him. As succeeding generations of boys march onward through Chips' mind Hilton's narrative remains masterful. He seamlessly interweaves a poignant love story with the jokes and eccentricities of English public school life while also chronicling a new uncertain world full of conflict and upheaval that extends far beyond the turrets of Brookfield.