To You, Mr Chips
by James Hilton
More stories of Mr. Chips, the world's most beloved school principal, as he helped shape young life in the first half of a turbulent century, when author James Hilton wrote his favorite short novel, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, he drew on his own formative experience at a boarding school in Cambridge. As World War I approached, the courage of the community and faculty among students helped Hilton and his classmates confront the fears and deprivations of these troubled times. In this collection, Hilton completes the legend of Mr. Chipping with exquisite stories and also offers a warm autobiographical description of his own experience with the British public school system.
