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. F. Benson: David Blaize
- 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
- Ursula Dubosarsky: The Golden Day
- 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
- Stephen Fry: The Liar
- 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
- Robin Jenkins: Happy for the Child
- 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)
- Hugh Walpole: Jeremy at Crale
- 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
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).
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