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To You Mr Chips - More Stories of Mr Chips and the True Story Behind the World's Most Beloved Schoolmaster - cover

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To You Mr Chips - More Stories of Mr Chips and the True Story Behind the World's Most Beloved Schoolmaster

James Hilton

Publisher: Open Road Media

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More stories of Mr. Chips, the world’s most beloved schoolmaster, as he helps shape young lives through the first half of a tumultuous centuryWhen author James Hilton penned his beloved short novel, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, he drew on his own formative experiences at a boarding school in Cambridge. As World War I approached, the camaraderie among students and the faculty’s courage helped Hilton and his classmates face the fear and deprivations of those troubled times. In this collection, Hilton adds to the legend of Mr. Chipping through exquisite short stories, while also providing a warm autobiographical account of his own experience with the English public school system.
Available since: 05/01/2012.

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