School and university in literature
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[edit] 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
- Alan Bennett: The History Boys
- William Sutcliffe: New Boy
- 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: Die Vikarin
- Frances Hodgson Burnett: Sara Crewe (aka A Little Princess)
- Hezekiah Butterworth: The Log School-House on the Columbia [2]
- Michael Campbell: Lord Dismiss Us
- Anton Chekhov: "The Schoolmaster" [3]
- 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
- 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" [4]
- Ernst Eckstein: Die Klosterschülerin and Gesammelte Schulhumoresken
- Edward Eggleston: The Hoosier Schoolmaster [5]
- 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
- 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" [6]
- 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
- Valery Larbaud: Fermina Márquez
- Nancy Lieberman: Admissions
- 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
- 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: 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
- 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" [7]
- Heinrich Spoerl: Die Feuerzangenbowle
- Emil Strauß: Freund Hein
- Jesse Stuart: "Split Cherry Tree" [8]
- 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 [9]
- 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: Zur Hölle mit den Paukern
- Tobias Wolff: Old School
- Richard B. Wright: The Teacher's Daughter
- Richard Yates: A Good School
- Juli Zeh: Spieltrieb
[edit] University in literature
- Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim
- 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
- 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 [10]
- 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
- 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: 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
- 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
- Sylvia Hart Wright: Breaking Free: A Novel of the Sixties [11]
[edit] 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
[edit] 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)
