Chips, an eighty-five-year-old man who takes every opportunity to confirm that he is not ill and about to die. Chips has the major themes of mortality, the value of education, and reverence for one’s forebears. The book has been charged with sentimentally, but it remains a classic for its endearing tale of a beloved teacher and its chronicling of major social events, including the Glass Palace Exhibition (1851) the Franco-Prussian War (1870) World War 1 (1914-1918) and the rise of Hitler (1933). Published in a newspaper then reprinted as a book in 1934, the novella became a best-seller and would be adapted to film twice. Chips) Hilton dedicated it to his father, who was a school teacher. It follows the thoughts and memories of a popular English schoolteacher, Mr.
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 ).Screenwriter and novelist James Hilton (1900-1954) wrote the psychological novel Goodbye, Mr. 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."
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. 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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