School and university in literature - Definition and Overview

School in literature

• E.R. Braithwaite: To Sir, with Love
• Anthony Buckeridge: Jennings Goes to School
• Frances Hodgson Burnett: Sara Crewe (aka A Little Princess)
• Jonathan Coe: The Rotters' Club
• Ivy Compton-Burnett: Pastors and Masters
• Thomas H. Cook: The Chatham School Affair
• Robert Cormier: The Chocolate War
• Amanda Craig: A Private Place
• Stephen Dobyns: Boy in the Water
• Andreas Franz: Tod eines Lehrers
• Elizabeth George: Well-Schooled in Murder
• Henry Green: Concluding
• Zoë Heller: Notes on a Scandal
• Lillian Hellman: The Children's Hour
• John Hersey: The Child Buyer
• James Hilton: Goodbye, Mr. Chips
• Thomas Hughes: Tom Brown's School Days
• Evan Hunter: The Blackboard Jungle
• LouAnne Johnson: My Posse Don't Do Homework (filmed as Dangerous Minds)
• Pamela Hansford Johnson: The Honours Board
• Bel Kaufman: Up the Down Staircase
• Rudyard Kipling: Stalky & Co.
• N. H. Kleinbaum: Dead Poets Society (novelisation of the original screenplay)
• John Knowles: A Separate Peace
• Arthur Machen: The Secret Glory
• Heinrich Mann: Professor Unrat (filmed as The Blue Angel)
• Andrew Neiderman: Teacher's Pet
• Freya North: Polly
• Terence Rattigan: The Browning Version
• Ernest Raymond: Tell England
• Patrick Redmond: The Wishing Game
• J.D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye
• Muriel Spark: The Finishing School
• Heinrich Spoerl: Die Feuerzangenbowle
• William Sutcliffe: New Boy
• Josephine Tey: Miss Pym Disposes
• Friedrich Torberg: Der Schüler Gerber
• Nigel Williams: Class Enemy
• Tobias Wolff: Old School
• Richard Yates: A Good School
• Juli Zeh: Spieltrieb

University in literature

• Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim
• Malcolm Bradbury: The History Man
• Robertson Davies: The Rebel Angels
• Don DeLillo: White Noise
• Stephen Fry: Making History
• John Kenneth Galbraith: A Tenured Professor
• Thomas Hughes: Tom Brown at Oxford
• Pamela Hansford Johnson: Night and Silence Who Is Here?
• David Lodge: The British Museum Is Falling Down
• David Lodge: Changing Places
• David Lodge: Nice Work
• David Lodge: Thinks ...
• David Mamet: Oleanna
• Tim Parks: Europa
• Ellery Queen: The Campus Murders
• Philip Roth: The Human Stain
• Willy Russell: Educating Rita
• Dorothy L. Sayers: Gaudy Night
• Dietrich Schwanitz: Der Campus
• Tom Sharpe: Wilt
• Jane Smiley: Moo
• Hillary Waugh: Last Seen Wearing ...
• Tom Wolfe: I Am Charlotte Simmons
• Sylvia Hart Wright: [1] (http://www.sylviahartwright.com)

See also

• Teaching in popular culture (includes film and television)
• List of fictional schools
• List of fictional Oxford colleges
• List of fictional Cambridge colleges