The Paper Chase

By John Jay Osborn Jr.

Book Overview

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, who asks not just for the student's mind, but for his soul. You quail at the exams, exult when you know the answers, love-hate Professor Kingsfield. It is also a love story that is 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0983698007
• ISBN13: 9780983698005
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Peninsula Road Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.9" x 7.4"

Customer Reviews

Classic

A good story - though it no longer gibes with the experience of a law student at HLS perfectly.

First-Rate Entertainment

Both the book and the movie are first-rate entertainment. The author finds a way to make fascinating the travails of first-year law students, through expert characterizations and a dramatic presentation of the technical aspects of learning the law.

Great for the First Year Law Student!

I absolutely loved this book. I am in my twenties, so I obviously missed the movie and TV show, this book never needed the visual stimulation. Greatly recommended for students thinking about law school. Extremely entertaining and stimulating. The characters are colorful, I absolutely know these characters in my own life. Beautifully written.

A must read book for one L law school student

It's a good book. "...law is rational, people are not." Without getting into the experience of the tradition, one would never know how much fun is to become part of it. One would only know "...how difficult is to extent the tradition." Enjoy!

Great story...

This book was/is terribly well-writen. The story (also well presented in the Houseman movie) is entertaining/interesting. Definitely worth reading.