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 locale. The list spans centuries and geographical boundaries, featuring Charlotte Brontë, Agatha Christie and Honoré 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: (see Groton School) and
• 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:
• Elinor Brent-Dyer: Chalet School series
• Charlotte Brontë: The Professor and Villette
• Leo Bruce:
• Anthony Buckeridge: Jennings series
• Erika Burkart:^[2]
• Frances Hodgson Burnett: Sara Crewe (aka A Little Princess)
• Dorothy Bussy writing as Olivia: Olivia
• Hezekiah Butterworth: ^[3]
• : 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:
• Robert Cormier: The Chocolate War
• Amanda Craig:
• Edmund Crispin: Love Lies Bleeding
• Clemence Dane: Regiment of Women
• Roald Dahl: "Galloping Foxley"
• Alphonse Daudet:
• Abha Dawesar: Babyji
• Edmondo De Amicis: Heart
• R. F. Delderfield: To Serve Them All My Days
• Charles Dickens: Nicholas Nickleby
• Stephen Dobyns: Boy in the Water
• : ^[5]
• Ursula Dubosarsky: The Golden Day
• Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: "Der Vorzugsschüler"^[6]
• Ernst Eckstein: and
• Edward Eggleston: The Hoosier Schoolmaster^[7]
• Frederic W. Farrar: Eric, or, Little by Little
• Antonia Forest: Autumn Term, End of Term, , and (four books set at Kingscote School for Girls)
• Hannah Webster Foster: The Boarding School; or, Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils
• Leonhard Frank:
• Andreas Franz:
• 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
• writing as :^[8]
• 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"^[9]
• Ödön von Horváth: ( aka )
• Thomas Hughes: Tom Brown's School Days
• Evan Hunter: The Blackboard Jungle
• Rachel Hunter:
• James Hynes: The Lecturer's Tale
• Robin Jenkins:
• 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.
• : 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:
• : ^[10]
• Earl Lovelace: The Schoolmaster
• Arnold Lunn:
• Patrick McCabe: The Dead School
• Megan McCafferty: Sloppy Firsts and Second Helpings
• Frank McCourt: Teacher Man
• Heather McGowan:
• Arthur Machen:
• Emily Maguire:
• Heinrich Mann: Professor Unrat (filmed as The Blue Angel)
• Robert Menasse:
• Gladys Mitchell: Death at the Opera
• Zsigmond Móricz: ()
• Iris Murdoch: The Sandcastle
• Robert Musil: (filmed as Der junge Törless)
• R. K. Narayan: The English Teacher
• Andrew Neiderman:
• Freya North: Polly
• Géza Ottlik:
• Robert B. Parker: School Days
• Frances Gray Patton: Good Morning, Miss Dove
• Tom Perrotta: Election and The Abstinence Teacher
• Gervase Phinn: , , , , and
• Libby Purves:
• Terence Rattigan: French Without Tears, The Winslow Boy, and The Browning Version
• Ernest Raymond: Tell England
• Miss Read: and
• Talbot Baines Reed: The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's
• Patrick Redmond: The Wishing Game
• Peter Rosegger: ()
• Bernice Rubens:
• Paul Russell: The Coming Storm
• John Patrick Shanley: Doubt
• Anita Shreve: Testimony
• Alan Sillitoe: ""
• Curtis Sittenfeld: (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"^[11]
• Heinrich Spoerl: Die Feuerzangenbowle
• Jesse Stuart: ""^[12]
• Ron Suskind: A Hope in the Unseen
• William Sutcliffe: New Boy
• Josephine Tey:
• Scarlett Thomas:
• Friedrich Torberg:
• Anthony Trollope: Doctor Wortle's School
• Hermann Ungar: Die Klasse (The Class)
• Horace Annesley Vachell: ^[13]
• Simone van der Vlugt: (Class Reunion)
• Hugh Walpole: 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:
• Nigel Williams: Class Enemy
• Carol Windley: ""
• Christa Winsloe: (filmed as Mädchen in Uniform)
• P. G. Wodehouse: The Pothunters, A Prefect's Uncle, The Gold Bat, Mike
• :^[14] Zur Hölle mit den Paukern
• Tobias Wolff: Old School
• Richard B. Wright:
• Richard Yates: A Good School
• Juli Zeh: Spieltrieb

University in literature[]

• Shmuel Yosef Agnon: Shira
• Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim
• Dorothy Baker:
• John Barth: Giles Goat-Boy
• Max Beerbohm: Zuleika Dobson
• Saul Bellow: Ravelstein
• E. F. Benson:
• 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
• : and
• Robertson Davies: The Rebel Angels
• Pamela Dean: Tam Lin
• Don DeLillo: White Noise
• Jenny Diski: Rainforest
• Carl Djerassi:
• D. J. Enright:
• 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:
• Randall Jarrell: Pictures from an Institution
• Denis Johnson: The Name of the World
• Owen Johnson: Stover at Yale
• Pamela Hansford Johnson:
• Chip Kidd:
• Neil LaBute: The Shape of Things
• Philip Larkin: Jill
• :
• David Leavitt: The Body of Jonah Boyd
• Elinor Lipman:
• David Lodge: The British Museum Is Falling Down, Changing Places, Nice Work, Thinks ..., and Deaf Sentence
• Alison Lurie: 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^[15]
• David Mamet: Oleanna
• Javier Marías: All Souls
• Niq Mhlongo:
• Jeffrey Moore: Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain
• Dhan Gopal Mukerji:
• Vladimir Nabokov: Pnin and Pale Fire
• David Nicholls; Starter for Ten
• Charles Gilman Norris:
• Joyce Carol Oates: Black Girl / White Girl
• John O'Hara: Elizabeth Appleton
• Tim Parks: Europa
• Adrian Jones Pearson:
• Tom Perrotta:
• Francine Prose: Blue Angel
• Ellery Queen: The Campus Murders
• Roger Rosenblatt:
• Philip Roth: The Human Stain and Indignation
• Willy Russell: Educating Rita
• Richard Russo: Straight Man
• Dorothy L. Sayers: Gaudy Night
• Dietrich Schwanitz:^[16]
• 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:
• 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:
• Michael Wilding:
• John Williams: Stoner
• Angus Wilson: Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
• Tom Wolfe: I Am Charlotte Simmons
• : ^[17]
• Laurel Zuckerman:

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).

See also[]

• List of fictional British and Irish universities

References[]

External links[]

• Selected Academic Novels by (Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign)
• Books that take place within an academic environment by (Department of Family Studies and Gerontology, Mount Saint Vincent University)