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Goodbye Mr Chips
- Narrated by: Robert Bathurst
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
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Summary
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.
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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- Tmara Senior
- 03-01-24
Goodbye Mr Chips
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.
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- Rico Suave
- 11-05-23
Just wonderful!
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.
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- Krissy
- 16-08-23
Lovely Story
I remember the movie with Robert Donat from being a little girl, it was sad him places but necessarily so. Loved it. Thanks 😥💜
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