(John Christopher Timothy) Jennings – son of a businessman whose home is at Haywards Heath in the stockbroker belt. Wilkins, which could be "ozard", "ozard squared" and occasionally "ozard cubed". It was also used to describe the anger of Mr. "Ozard" derives from " Wizard of Oz" and was used to describe anything the boys disliked or dreaded. The post-war slang "wizard" generally meant "good" or "very good". In particular they coined the word "ozard". The stories invented some vernacular language for the boys to use. Unlike many of his fans, Buckeridge tended to prefer his later books to his earlier ones, possibly because he was a man of the Left and had more positive political memories of the post-1964 period when the books were reprinted in paperback in the late 1980s, he chose some of the later books for early publication ahead of those originally written in the 1950s. The earlier novels present an idealised version of rural or small-town, middle-class English life in the years between the Second World War and the social revolution of the 1960s the later ones are still rooted in this era (as Buckeridge admitted) but reflect the changing times surprisingly well. In the earliest novels in the series there are some Latin puns (typically omitted from later reprints), but Buckeridge discontinued these, apparently to maximise their appeal. Much of the humour rests on misunderstandings attributable to Jennings's literal-mindedness and impetuosity. Quite often, the character's name was not retained: when published in France, Jennings' name was changed to "Bennett" in Norway he was known as " Stompa" and in Brazil, when published during the 1970s, the character's name became "Johnny". The first ten novels in the series were reprinted in the UK in paperback, by Armada Books, in the late 1960s and many of the novels were translated from the original English into foreign languages. The characters were originally created for radio and appeared in a regular series on Children's Hour from the late 1940s. The two final volumes were published in the 1990s: Jennings Again in 1991, and That's Jennings in 1994. The first of the series, Jennings Goes to School, appeared in 1950, and new titles were published regularly until the mid-1970s (including Jennings at Large, published in 1977, the only novel to feature Jennings during the school holidays). There are 24 novels in the series, excluding reprints and other material. Jennings, a schoolboy at Linbury Court preparatory school in England. The Jennings series is a collection of novels written by Anthony Buckeridge (1912–2004) as children's literature about the humorous escapades of J.C.T. Dust jacket from the 1951 Collins hardback edition of Jennings Follows a Clue
0 kommentar(er)
