Good-bye, Mr. Chips (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: James Hilton
- First Published: 1934
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Sentimental
- Time of Work: 1870-1933
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, Values, Memory, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, England or English people, World War I, Eccentrics or eccentricities, Boys, Old age or elderly people, Nostalgia, Private schools
- Locales: England
Places Discussed
Brookfield School. English public school (comparable to an American “private” school, that is, one that is not government run) at which Mr. Chipping (nicknamed “Mr. Chips”) spends his entire career teaching boys. Of unspecified location, the school functions as an idealized and realistic microcosm of England. The men who lead it and the boys who develop under their tutelage are allegorical inhabitants of this symbolic design. As a benevolent archetypal mentor, casting his personality over and through everything and everyone, Chipping is the paragon of...
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