As we looked how boarding schools is a recurrent topic for film makers we can’t ignore that many time films are based in books and telling about English literature boarding schools has become a genre with its own conventions.

There are some notable examples that million of people have read:

“Nicholas Nickleby” serial comic novel written by Charles Dickens and first published during 1838 and 1839. Nicholas Nickleby is a young man who must support his mother and his sister after his father’s death.
Some of the best stories happens at a boarding high school.

“Jane Eyre” famous Charlotte Brönte’s novel was published in London in 1847. It is an autobiography and is written in a first-person narrative. Jane talks about her education at Lowood School, in this girl boarding school she meets her friends but also she suffer many privations.

“Goodbye, Mr. Chips” by James Hilton was written in only four days and center the story much on the schoolteacher or a public boarding school than in the students.

J.S. Salinger’s 1951 novel “The Catcher in the Rye” has been listed as one of the best novels in 20th century and it has been translated into world’s major languages. Its principal character has become an icon for teenage rebellion. This novel has been related to conspiracy theories on the media and it is said that many famous killers were collectors of different editions of the novel.

Boarding school is always a experience in life, most of times a good one, and those who spend some of their youth years there can forget that time and sometimes they get inspired to write so beautiful books.