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Jennings (novels)
The ''Jennings'' series is a collection of humorous novels of children's literature concerning the escapades of J. C. T. Jennings, a schoolboy at Linbury Court preparatory school in England. There are 25 in total, all written by Anthony Buckeridge (1912–2004). The first, ''Jennings Goes to School'' (ISBN 0-333-65523-0) appeared in 1950 and new titles were published regularly until the mid-1970s (the last for fourteen years was ''Jennings at Large'' in 1977, the only book to feature Jennings during the school holidays), with two more in the 1990s (''Jennings Again'' in 1991 and ''That's Jennings'' in 1994). When published in France the name of "Jennings" was changed to "Bennett" while in Norway he is known as "Stompa". In Brazil, it was published during the 70s, and his name was Johnny.
==Style==
Much of the humour rests on misunderstandings attributable to Jennings's literal-mindedness and impetuosity. In the earliest novels in the series there are some Latin puns, but Buckeridge discontinued these, apparently to maximise their appeal. 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. 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 stories invented some vernacular language for the boys to use. In particular they coined the word "ozard". The post-war slang "wizard" generally meant "good" or "very good". "Ozard" derives from "Wizard of Oz" and was used to describe anything the boys disliked or dreaded. It was also used to describe the anger of Mr. Wilkins, which could be "ozard", "ozard squared" and occasionally "ozard cubed".
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