Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Another one from January that I forgot to post! 

This is a dear story in a short read. It is the review of a life well-lived. Poignant and powerful. 

Here is why James Mustich thinks it should be one of the 1000 Books You Read Before You Die:

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

James Hilton

James Mustich

James Hilton’s touching story of an English schoolmaster is simple, sweet, and unforgettable. Arthur Chipping—nicknamed Mr. Chips—has taught for most of his long life at a boarding school called Brookfield, ripening, as we learn in gently unfolding flashbacks, from an uncertain and undistinguished youthful instructor into a steady, benevolent presence in the lives of three generations of students. You can read it in the time it would take to drink a pot of tea, yet the warm sentiments in which it steeps you will linger long after you’ve closed its covers. Goodbye, Mr. Chips will certainly make you think fondly of the good teachers you’ve had, but there is more to the book’s sentimental pull.