Goodbye MR Chips

Some day you'll see me somewhere and I shan't recognise you and you'll say to yourself - 'the old boy doesn't remember me.' But I do remember you - as you are now. That's the point. In my mind you never grow up at all. Never.
Mr Chipping, known fondly to his students as Mr Chips, is the beloved Latin master at a quiet boy's school. For forty-three years he acts as the heart and the soul of his institution, proving that dedication, love and a good sense of humour can make all the difference to generations of children.
The classic story of a quiet, unassuming man and the many lives he touches, Goodbye, Mr Chips has sold over two million copies and has never gone out of print.
'A minor miracle' New York Times
'A masterpiece' New York Herald Tribune

James Hilton was born in 1900.  He wrote his first novel, Catherine Herself, at the age of twenty while still an undergraduate.  For several years he worked as a freelance journalist and book reviewer.  And Now Goodbye, published 1931, heralded the success that was to come to him; it was followed in 1933 by Knight Without Armour and Lost Horizon (awarded the Hawthornden Prize in 1934).  Goodbye, Mr. Chips appeared in 1934; in 1938 came the stage version, and in 1939 the film.  He was invited to go to Hollywood, where he became one of the most popular scenario writers.  Random Harvest was published in 1941, and he continued writing until the year before his death, in December 1954, his last book being Time and Time Again.  Another major feature film was made in 1969 starring Peter O'Toole.