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 : 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
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; 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
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 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 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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