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Goodbye Mr Chips

By: James Hilton
Narrated by: Robert Bathurst
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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.

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.

Goodbye, Mr Chips is the beloved classic of generations of audiences and sure to delight people of all ages.

©1984 James Hilton (P)2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited Classics Literature & Fiction Comedy

Critic reviews

"A tiny, catch-in-the-throat story...perfectly done." (New Yorker)

"One of the most endearing creations of modern fiction." (Telegraph)

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It’s hard to describe the beauty of this story. Sure, it harks to a fictional, rose-tinted time in British history. Times of Just William, Jennings and anything Wodehousian. But this tale comes with a touching message of lifelong dedication, of love, love lost and the satisfaction of a life well lived.

If you want an escape from the hustle and bustle of modern life, and wish to escape to simpler times……read (or listen) on.

A superb masterpiece, wonderfully narrated and guaranteed to soothe one’s soul.

Just wonderful!

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I remember the movie with Robert Donat from being a little girl, it was sad him places but necessarily so. Loved it. Thanks 😥💜

Lovely Story

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I saw the film over Christmas and loved it so much I had to read the book. The book and the film are very similar, I love how Mr Chips is looking back on his life and remembering and reflecting. The book isn't as long as I thought it would be but it is still a really good book.

Goodbye Mr Chips

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A life-affirming book with the important lessons of the 20th Century - especially the pointlessness of war. Perfectly performed.

Wonderful

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The narrator with a smooth silky voice had me in Brookfield school as a public school pupil in the past I could relate to the ways of Brookfield

Beautifully read by the narrator

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