School and university in literature

School in literature

• Thomas Bailey Aldrich: The Story of a Bad Boy ^[1]
• Laurie Halse Anderson: Speak
• Christine Anlauff: Good morning, Lehnitz
• F. Anstey: Vice Versa
• Louis Auchincloss: The Rector of Justin (see Groton School) and The Headmaster's Dilemma
• Honoré de Balzac: Louis Lambert
• Lynn Barber: An Education
• François Bégaudeau: Entre les murs
• Mark Behr: Embrace
• Alan Bennett: The History Boys
• E.R. Braithwaite: To Sir, with Love
• Sasthi Brata: My God Died Young
• Elinor Brent-Dyer: the Chalet School series
• Charlotte Brontë: The Professor and Villette
• Leo Bruce: Death at St. Asprey's School
• Anthony Buckeridge: the Jennings series
• Erika Burkart ^[2]: Die Vikarin
• Frances Hodgson Burnett: Sara Crewe (aka A Little Princess)
• Hezekiah Butterworth: The Log School-House on the Columbia ^[3]
• Michael Campbell: Lord Dismiss Us
• Eleanor Catton: The Rehearsal
• Anton Chekhov: "The Schoolmaster" ^[4]
• Agatha Christie: Cat Among the Pigeons
• Jonathan Coe: The Rotters' Club
• Colette: Claudine à l'école
• Ivy Compton-Burnett: Pastors and Masters
• Thomas H. Cook: The Chatham School Affair
• Robert Cormier: The Chocolate War
• Amanda Craig: A Private Place
• Edmund Crispin: Love Lies Bleeding
• Clemence Dane: Regiment of Women
• Roald Dahl: "Galloping Foxley"
• Alphonse Daudet: Le petit chose
• Abha Dawesar: Babyji
• R. F. Delderfield: To Serve Them All My Days
• Stephen Dobyns: Boy in the Water
• Christophe Dufossé: School's Out (French: L'heure de la sortie)
• Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: "Der Vorzugsschüler" ^[5]
• Ernst Eckstein: Die Klosterschülerin and Gesammelte Schulhumoresken
• Edward Eggleston: The Hoosier Schoolmaster ^[6]
• Antonia Forest: Autumn Term, End of Term, The Cricket Term, and The Attic Term (four books set at Kingscote School for Girls)
• Hannah Webster Foster: The Boarding School
• Leonhard Frank: Die Ursache
• Andreas Franz: Tod eines Lehrers
• Elizabeth George: Well-Schooled in Murder
• Witold Gombrowicz: Ferdydurke
• Henry Green: Concluding
• Daniel Handler: The Basic Eight
• Wolfram Hänel writing as Kurt Appaz ^[7]: Klassentreffen
• Joanne Harris: Gentlemen & Players
• Jon Hassler: Staggerford
• Zoë Heller: Notes on a Scandal
• Lillian Hellman: The Children's Hour
• Günter Herburger: Hauptlehrer Hofer
• John Hersey: The Child Buyer
• Hermann Hesse: Unterm Rad (Beneath the Wheel aka The Prodigy)
• James Hilton: Goodbye, Mr. Chips and Murder at School
• Alan Hollinghurst: The Swimming Pool Library
• Arno Holz: "Der erste Schultag" ^[8]
• Ödön von Horváth: Jugend ohne Gott (Youth Without God aka Cold Times)
• Thomas Hughes: Tom Brown's School Days
• Evan Hunter: The Blackboard Jungle
• Rachel Hunter: The Schoolmistress: A Moral Tale for Young Ladies
• LouAnne Johnson: My Posse Don't Do Homework (filmed as Dangerous Minds)
• Pamela Hansford Johnson: The Honours Board
• Erich Kästner: Das fliegende Klassenzimmer (The Flying Classroom)
• Bel Kaufman: Up the Down Staircase
• Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman): Rage (aka Getting It On)
• Rudyard Kipling: Stalky & Co.
• N. H. Kleinbaum: Dead Poets Society (novelisation of the original screenplay)
• John Knowles: A Separate Peace and Peace Breaks Out
• Michael Köhlmeier: Die Musterschüler
• Alfred Kolleritsch: Allemann
• Valery Larbaud: Fermina Márquez
• Siegfried Lenz: Schweigeminute
• Nancy Lieberman: Admissions ^[9]
• Earl Lovelace: The Schoolmaster
• Arnold Lunn: The Harrovians
• Patrick McCabe: The Dead School
• Megan McCafferty: Sloppy Firsts and Second Helpings
• Frank McCourt: Teacher Man
• Heather McGowan: Schooling
• Arthur Machen: The Secret Glory
• Emily Maguire: Taming the Beast
• Heinrich Mann: Professor Unrat (filmed as The Blue Angel)
• Benjamin Markovits: Fathers and Daughters
• Robert Menasse: Die Vertreibung aus der Hölle
• Gladys Mitchell: Death at the Opera
• Zsigmond Móricz: Légy jó mindhalálig (Be Faithful Unto Death)
• Robert Musil: Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß (filmed as Der junge Törless)
• R. K. Narayan: The English Teacher
• Andrew Neiderman: Teacher's Pet
• Freya North: Polly
• Géza Ottlik: Iskola a határon
• Robert B. Parker: School Days
• Frances Gray Patton: Good Morning, Miss Dove
• Tom Perrotta: Election and The Abstinence Teacher
• Gervase Phinn: The School Inspector Calls, The Other Side of the Dale, Over Hill and Dale, Head Over Heels in the Dales, and Up and Down in the Dales
• Libby Purves: More Lives Than One
• Terence Rattigan: French Without Tears, The Winslow Boy, and The Browning Version
• Ernest Raymond: Tell England
• Miss Read: Village School and School at Thrush Green
• Patrick Redmond: The Wishing Game
• Peter Rosegger: Die Schriften des Waldschulmeisters (Manuscripts of a Forest School Master)
• Bernice Rubens: I, Dreyfus
• Paul Russell: The Coming Storm
• John Patrick Shanley: Doubt
• Anita Shreve: Testimony
• Alan Sillitoe: "Mr Raynor the School-teacher"
• Curtis Sittenfeld: Prep (see Groton School)
• Natsume Sōseki: Botchan
• Muriel Spark: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and The Finishing School
• Stephen Spender: "An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum" ^[10]
• Heinrich Spoerl: Die Feuerzangenbowle
• Emil Strauß: Freund Hein
• Jesse Stuart: "Split Cherry Tree" ^[11]
• Ron Suskind: A Hope in the Unseen
• William Sutcliffe: New Boy
• Josephine Tey: Miss Pym Disposes
• Friedrich Torberg: Der Schüler Gerber
• Anthony Trollope: Doctor Wortle's School
• Sarah Tucker: The Battle for Big School
• Hermann Ungar: Die Klasse (The Class)
• Horace Annesley Vachell: The Hill ^[12]
• Simone van der Vlugt: De reünie (Class Reunion)
• Robert Walser: Jakob von Gunten
• Alec Waugh: The Loom of Youth
• Evelyn Waugh: Decline and Fall
• Charles Webb: Home School
• Frank Wedekind: Frühlings Erwachen (Spring Awakening)
• Franz Werfel: Der Abituriententag (Class Reunion)
• Antonia White: Frost in May
• Marianne Wiggins: John Dollar
• Nigel Williams: Class Enemy
• Carol Windley: "Home Schooling"
• Christa Winsloe: Child Manuela (filmed as Mädchen in Uniform)
• P. G. Wodehouse: The Pothunters, A Prefect's Uncle and The Gold Bat
• Alexander Wolf ^[13]: Zur Hölle mit den Paukern
• Tobias Wolff: Old School
• Richard B. Wright: The Teacher's Daughter
• Richard Yates: A Good School
• Juli Zeh: Spieltrieb

University in literature

• Agnon: Shira
• Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim
• Dorothy Baker: Trio
• John Barth: Giles Goat-Boy
• Max Beerbohm: Zuleika Dobson
• Saul Bellow: Ravelstein
• T. C. Boyle: The Inner Circle
• Malcolm Bradbury: The History Man
• Michael Chabon: Wonder Boys
• Nirad C. Chaudhuri: The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
• Susan Choi: A Person of Interest: A Novel
• J. M. Coetzee: Disgrace
• Susan Coll: karlmarx.com and Acceptance
• Robertson Davies: The Rebel Angels
• Pamela Dean: Tam Lin
• Don DeLillo: White Noise
• Jenny Diski: Rainforest
• Carl Djerassi: Cantor's Dilemma
• D. J. Enright: Academic Year
• Richard Fariña: Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
• Michael Frayn: The Trick of It
• Stephen Fry: Making History
• John Kenneth Galbraith: A Tenured Professor
• Thomas Hughes: Tom Brown at Oxford
• Howard Jacobson: Coming from Behind
• Randall Jarrell: Pictures from an Institution
• Denis Johnson: The Name of the World
• Pamela Hansford Johnson: Night and Silence Who Is Here?
• Chip Kidd: The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters
• Neil LaBute: The Shape of Things
• Will Lavender: Obedience: A Novel
• David Leavitt: The Body of Jonah Boyd
• Elinor Lipman: My Latest Grievance
• David Lodge: The British Museum Is Falling Down, Changing Places, Nice Work, Thinks ..., and Deaf Sentence
• Mary McCarthy: The Groves of Academe
• Bernard Malamud: A New Life
• William Hurrell Mallock: The New Republic ^[14]
• David Mamet: Oleanna
• Javier Marías: All Souls
• Niq Mhlongo: Dog Eat Dog
• Jeffrey Moore: Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain
• Dhan Gopal Mukerji: Caste and Outcast
• Vladimir Nabokov: Pnin and Pale Fire
• David Nicholls; Starter for Ten
• Joyce Carol Oates: Black Girl / White Girl
• John O'Hara: Elizabeth Appleton
• Tim Parks: Europa
• Tom Perrotta: Joe College
• Francine Prose: Blue Angel
• Ellery Queen: The Campus Murders
• Philip Roth: The Human Stain and Indignation
• Willy Russell: Educating Rita
• Richard Russo: Straight Man
• Dorothy L. Sayers: Gaudy Night
• Dietrich Schwanitz ^[15]: Der Campus
• Tom Sharpe: Wilt
• Jane Smiley: Moo
• Zadie Smith: On Beauty
• Tammar Stein: Light Years
• Neal Stephenson: The Big U
• J. I. M. Stewart: A Staircase in Surrey
• Ivo Stourton: The Night Climbers
• Ron Suskind: A Hope in the Unseen
• Donna Tartt: The Secret History
• Sergio Troncoso: The Nature of Truth
• Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead Revisited
• Hillary Waugh: Last Seen Wearing ...
• Paul West: Oxford Days
• Michael Wilding: Academia Nuts
• Angus Wilson: Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
• Tom Wolfe: I Am Charlotte Simmons
• Laurel Zuckerman: Sorbonne Confidential
• Sylvia Hart Wright: Breaking Free: A Novel of the Sixties ^[16]

See also

• School story
• Boarding schools in fiction
• List of fictional schools
• List of fictional Oxford colleges
• List of fictional Cambridge colleges
• Campus novel
• Class reunion
• List of books portraying paedophilia or sexual abuse of minors

Further reading

• Elaine Showalter: Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and Its Discontents (Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania, 2005) (a study of the Anglo-American academic novel from the 1950s to the present).

External links

• Selected Academic Novels by William F. Brewer (Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• Books that take place within an academic environment by Áine M. Humble (Department of Family Studies and Gerontology, Mount Saint Vincent University)