num_pages: 200
description: Fortieth anniversary edition with a new preface by the author. A best-selling book and award-winning film and television series THE PAPER CHASE is at its heart the story of a young midwesterner James Hart who finds himself in the great classrooms of Langdell Hall at Harvard Law School locked in a zero-sum game with a dominating omniscient deity: Professor Kingsfield. Kingsfield is the sort of teacher who asks not just for the student's mind but for his soul. You quail at his exams exult when you know the answers and love-hate him. THE PAPER CHASE is also a love story as contemporary today as it was when the book was written of a boy from the midwest and a mysterious and demanding professor's daughter who refuses to accept accepted wisdom or role models and demands from Hart a love that transcends law school and conventional norms.
language: English
title: The Paper Chase
publisher: Peninsula Road Press