School and university in literature

Educational settings as place and/or subject in fiction form the theme of this catalogue of titles and authors. Organized alphabetically by the author's last name, the information is further divided by general school environments and those where the university, specifically, is the primary focal point. The list spans centuries and geographical boundaries, featuring Charlotte Brontë, Agatha Christie and Honore de Balzac as well as contemporary writers Curtis Sittenfeld, Joyce Carol Oates, and Donna Tartt. For those interested in learning more about the school/university in literature, references are included that provide a more academic study of the subgenre.

School in literature

• Thomas Bailey Aldrich: The Story of a Bad Boy^[1]
• Laurie Halse Anderson: Speak
• 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: Chalet School series
• Charlotte Brontë: The Professor and Villette
• Leo Bruce: Death at St. Asprey's School
• Anthony Buckeridge: Jennings series
• Erika Burkart:^[2] Die Vikarin
• Frances Hodgson Burnett: Sara Crewe (aka A Little Princess)
• Dorothy Bussy writing as Olivia: Olivia
• 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
• Charles Dickens: Nicholas Nickleby
• Stephen Dobyns: Boy in the Water
• Ursula Dubosarsky: The Golden Day
• Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: "Der Vorzugsschüler"^[5]
• Ernst Eckstein: Die Klosterschülerin and Gesammelte Schulhumoresken
• Edward Eggleston: The Hoosier Schoolmaster^[6]
• Frederic W. Farrar: Eric, or, Little by Little
• 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; or, Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils
• Leonhard Frank: Die Ursache
• Andreas Franz: Tod eines Lehrers
• Stephen Fry: The Liar
• Elizabeth George: Well-Schooled in Murder
• Witold Gombrowicz: Ferdydurke
• Gwethalyn Graham: Swiss Sonata
• 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
• 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
• 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)
• Robert Menasse: Die Vertreibung aus der Hölle
• Gladys Mitchell: Death at the Opera
• Zsigmond Móricz: Légy jó mindhalálig (Be Faithful Unto Death)
• Iris Murdoch: The Sandcastle
• 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
• Talbot Baines Reed: The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's
• 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
• 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
• 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 and Mr Perrin and Mr Traill (film version, 1948)
• 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, The Gold Bat, Mike
• 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

• Shmuel Yosef Agnon: Shira
• Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim
• Dorothy Baker: Trio
• John Barth: Giles Goat-Boy
• Max Beerbohm: Zuleika Dobson
• Saul Bellow: Ravelstein
• E. F. Benson: The Babe B.A.
• E. F. Benson: David of King's
• 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
• 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
• Stephen Fry: The Liar
• John Kenneth Galbraith: A Tenured Professor
• Thomas Hughes: Tom Brown at Oxford
• Hamlet Isakhanli: In Search of Khazar
• Howard Jacobson: Coming from Behind
• Randall Jarrell: Pictures from an Institution
• Denis Johnson: The Name of the World
• Owen Johnson: Stover at Yale
• 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
• Philip Larkin: Jill
• Will Lavender: Obedience
• 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
• Alison Lurie: Imaginary Friends and The War Between the Tates
• Mary McCarthy: The Groves of Academe
• Bernard Malamud: A New Life
• Percy Marks: The Plastic Age
• 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
• Charles Gilman Norris: Salt, or the Education of Griffith Adams
• Joyce Carol Oates: Black Girl / White Girl
• John O'Hara: Elizabeth Appleton
• Tim Parks: Europa
• Adrian Jones Pearson: Cow Country
• Tom Perrotta: Joe College
• Francine Prose: Blue Angel
• Ellery Queen: The Campus Murders
• Roger Rosenblatt: Beet
• 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
• C P Snow: The Masters
• 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 ...
• Jean Webster: Daddy-Long-Legs
• Paul West: Oxford Days
• Michael Wilding: Academia Nuts
• John Williams: Stoner
• Angus Wilson: Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
• Tom Wolfe: I Am Charlotte Simmons
• Sylvia Hart Wright: Breaking Free: A Novel of the Sixties^[16]
• Laurel Zuckerman: Sorbonne Confidential

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).

References

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)