Goodbye, Mr Chips
James Hilton
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James Hilton’s classic tale of eccentric school life
Goodbye, Mr Chips is an acknowledged masterpiece, holding a unique and enduring place in world literature. It was also made into a film starring Robert Donat and Greer Garson winning the Oscar for Best Film in 1939. In this complete and unabridged audio version the listener is taken on a beguiling journey; the life and times of Mr Chipping, classics master at Brookfield school since 1870. Sometimes Chips is an old man, dreaming by the fire. Then, a diffident young master taking ‘prep’ for the first time. Or, middle-aged and encountering Katherine, whose ‘new woman’ opinions create far-reaching changes in him. Hilton’s masterly narrative interweaves a heart-wrenching love story with the jokes and eccentricities of school life, whilst watching a new and uncertain world emerge, full of conflict and upheaval, far beyond the turrets of Brookfield.
The reader Martin Jarvis is one of Britain’s most successful actors, onstage, on-screen and on audio.
“A gem for all time as fresh as when first published in 1934…Martin Jarvis’s performance is magnificent.”
the Observer
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“I was carried away with Martin Jarvis’s brilliant performance - he gets Chips’s nervous little ‘ahem’s perfectly - that I even started singing along with ‘Jerusalem’ which begins every chapter.”
the Guardian
James Hilton
James Hilton (1900-1954) was a British novelist who wrote the bestsellers Lost Horizon and Goodbye, Mr Chips.