Goodbye Mr Chips (1934) - James Hilton
Category: General Fiction
Tags: General Fiction, Teen & Young Adult
Publisher: Canongate Books Release date: August 28, 2007 Duration: 01:54:55, Mr Chipping, classics master at Brookfield school since 1870, an old man, is reflecting upon his life in education., Throughout his forty-three-year tenure at Brookfield, a good public school of the second rate in eastern England, Arthur Chipping has been Mr. Chips to his students. 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. Chips has shaped many young lives. But Chips has been inspired as wellby 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., . Martin Jarvis is the perfect reader, as his lilting and soothing voice carries a reader along on a swell of nostalgia, leaving them wishing that they could have been there to celebrate all of Mr. Chippings happinesss with him., Since it
