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 ). 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.' After moving to California, Hilton continued to write novels and screenplays. Chips (1934) launched his career as a celebrated author. Hilton worked as a journalist until the success of his novels Lost Horizon (1933) and Goodbye, Mr. 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. James Hilton (19001954) was a bestselling English novelist and Academy Awardwinning screenwriter. Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may. James Hilton Fiction, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Humour Praise for Goodbye Mr Chips: The heart-warming classic that inspired three film adaptations. Throughout his forty-three-year tenure at Brookfield, 'a good public school of the second rate' in eastern England, Arthur Chipping has been Mr. 19OFF James Hilton - Goodbye Mr Chips - 9781473640559 - 9781473640559.

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