Good-bye Mr. Chips (Hardcover Library Edition)

One of the most endearing creations of modern fiction'' - Telegraph Goodbye Mr. Chips is a novella about the life of a school teacher Mr. Chipping written by English writer James Hilton. It has been adapted into two feature films and two television presentations. Mr Chipping is a quiet unassuming teacher at Brookfield Grammar School. Wholly conventional he never veers from his established routines. Until that is he meets Katherine who charms him and his students and teaches Mr Chipping that education is about more than just the hours spent in the schoolroom. As his love for Katherine blooms Mr Chipping develops a sense of humour and a broad view of his role as a teacher and a friend to his students becoming the beloved ''Mr Chips'' to generations of schoolboys. There is not another book with the possible exception of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol that has quite the same hold on readers’ affections. Such is its popularity that it has been adapted into two films and two television series. Goodbye Mr Chips features an extraordinary period of history from the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s to Hitler''s rise to power in the 1930s and demonstrates that through it all love and a good sense of humour can make all the difference.