"cloth wear, marks, spots, inside a few foxing spots, and spots page edges, inners clean and tight". Sweeping across four decades, 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. Mr Chipping, classics master at Brookfield. 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. Chips recollects his many years as a school master, with a touching poignancy that is touching and involving. 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. Wholly conventional, he never veers from his established routines. Mr Chipping is a quiet, unassuming teacher at Brookfield Grammar School. Chips James Hilton Published by Little, Brown, 1934.
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