Goodbye, Mr. Chips -

James Hilton

Hodder & Stoughton

2016

128 páginas

4h 16m

ISBN-13: 9781473640559

Good-Bye, Mr. Chips (first published 1934) [ASIN: B01C652PY0 ] '-'
Mr. Arthur Chipping, known fondly to his students as Mr Chips, is the beloved Latin master at a quiet boy's school of Brookfield. For forty-three years he acts as the heart and the soul of his institution, proving that dedication, love and a good sense of humour can make all the difference to generations of children. The classic story of a quiet, unassuming man and the many lives he touches, Goodbye, Mr Chips has sold over two million copies and has never gone out of print.

An elder teacher and former boarding school headmaster looks back upon his career and personal life over the decades.
To become an exceptional teacher and classics schoolmaster in this story of honor, manners and the joy of a live lived in the service of others. . . There is not another book, with the possible exception of Dickens's 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.

James Hilton was born in 1900. He wrote his first novel, Catherine Herself, at the age of twenty while still an undergraduate. For several years he worked as a freelance journalist and book reviewer. And Now Goodbye, published 1931, heralded the success that was to come to him; it was followed in 1933 by Knight Without Armour and Lost Horizon (awarded the Hawthornden Prize in 1934). Goodbye, Mr. Chips appeared in 1934; in 1938 came the stage version, and in 1939 the film. He was invited to go to Hollywood, where he became one of the most popular scenario writers. Random Harvest was published in 1941, and he continued writing until the year before his death, in December 1954, his last book being Time and Time Again. Another major feature film was made in 1969 starring Peter O'Toole.