The Paper Chase

About this book

Fiction. 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 students 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 professors daughter who refuses to accept accepted wisdom or role models and demands from Hart a love that transcends law school and conventional norms.