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Originally Posted by drofgnal
This has been on my TBR list since I saw the movie with Peter O'Toole. I'll nominate Goodbye Mr. Chips by James Hilton. More of a novella tipping the scales at 72 pages according to Amazon.
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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. Beginning with his unpolished first years during the Franco-Prussian War, into the radical changes of the twentieth century and the outbreak of the First World War, Mr. Chips has shaped lives. But Chips has been inspired as well—by the unremarkable and the extraordinary, by his colleagues, by a woman who changes him forever, and not least, by his children, “thousands of them, all boys.”
Since it was first published in 1934 to international success, Goodbye, Mr. Chips has never been out of print. It was followed by a collection of stories, To You, Mr. Chips, and provided the basis for two award-winning feature films, a stage musical, a radio play, and two television adaptations. Based on 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).
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007M0X8KU?tag=ebb-site1-20 |
Not nominating or seconding yet, I'm still thinking about my options. But for those in Life+50 countries, this book is in the Public Domain and available from
FadedPage.