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	Jennings (novels) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Jennings series is a collection of humorous novels of children's literature.
		In the earliest novels in the series there are some Latin puns, but Buckeridge discontinued these in later books, apparently in order to maximise their appeal.
		The earlier novels present an idealised version of rural, upper 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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jennings_(novels) (524 words)

	Gary Jennings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This novel was based on his ideas, approved by his estate and by his editor, but at this point the true author has been kept secret, and the novel credited to Jennings.
		Jennings' novels are well-researched: he lived for 12 years in Mexico to research the Aztec novels, travelled the Balkans while researching Raptor, and joined nine circus troupes during the writing of Spangle.
		Jennings died on Friday the 13th of February 1999 in Pompton Lakes, NJ.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gary_Jennings (225 words)

	Jennings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Jennings series is a collection of comic novels of children's literature.
		The first, Jenning Goes to School ISBN 0333655230, appeared in the late 1950s and new titles were published regularly until the mid-1970s.
		Taken as a whole the novels present an idealised version of rural, upper middle class English life in the years between the Second World War and the social revolution of the 1960s.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/j/je/jennings.html (540 words)

	Gary Jennings
		His novels were international best sellers, praised around the world for their stylish prose, lively wit and adventurously bawdy spirit.
		Jennings enlivened their adventures with an energetic prose, an electrifying power and a narrative drive that many believed unique to historical fiction.
		Garry Jennings literally roamed the world in the course of researching The Journeyer, for which he faithfully duplicated the travels of his hero, Marco Polo.
	www.garyjennings.net /about.htm (624 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Anthony Buckeridge
		Jennings gradually emerged as the central figure in these tales, which drew on the exploits of one of Buckeridge's own schoolfriends of the same name, a marine engineer who lives in New Zealand.
		Jennings was a boy of high spirits, as innocent of malice as he was of forethought.
		Jennings also flourished in France, although he had to be renamed "Bennett" to aid pronunciation.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/06/29/db2901.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2004/06/29/ixopright.html (1001 words)

	FilmJerk.com - inSCRIPTions Screenplay Review: Paycheck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		We first meet Jennings, almost always referred to solely by his last name, as he is completing his work replicating one hi-tech company's newest servers for one of their rivals, minus any dummy circuits or other parts that might give away the forgery, to help his current employer stay competitive.
		Jennings is flown to Allcom's corporate campus, where he packs all his stuff up, gets a preparatory shot which will mark the spot in his memory they'll want to erase back to and gets the grand tour of where he will be working.
		As Jennings leaves the Allcom corporate campus, he has a vague sense of loss, which is soon replaced by joy when, upon arriving home, he learns his three million shares of stock are worth more than four billion dollars.
	www.filmjerk.com /new/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=402 (1447 words)

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		Still, the novel's early scenes set the tone -- and a refreshingly irreverent one it is. "Nam-a-Rama" soon takes flight, its plot veering wildly, darkly and amusingly as we follow the exploits of the narrator, Almost Capt. Jack Armstrong, and his mad buddy, Almost Capt. Gearheardt.
		Jennings mines his personal experience -- he was a U.S. Marine and Air America helicopter pilot in Southeast Asia.) The story eventually moves from battle to back channels: At the behest of President Larry Bob, the two almost-captains go to Hanoi to strike a deal with Ho Chi Minh, or perhaps to kill him.
		Jennings limns his japes with a tribute to the men who fought in Vietnam, especially to the Marines, in words so beautiful that they brought tears to my eyes.
	www.warbirdforum.com /unquiet.htm (738 words)

	A Gary Jennings Omnibus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Jennings' books are set in widely different places and times, but his protagonists are similar in some ways.
		The novel follows the fortunes of an Aztec man, Mixtli, who is born with very poor vision but finds a way to make himself a rudimentary pair of glasses, and from then on travels extensively and involves himself in many trades and occupations.
		Jennings uses these observations to realistically portray the times and places he writes about; while some of the events are a bit overwrought, the details anchor the stories to definite historical settings.
	www.greenmanreview.com /garyjennings.html (900 words)

	Jennings: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Jennings series is a collection of humorous novels of children's literature (children's literature: there is some debate as to what constitutes childrens literature....
		In the earliest novels in the series there are some Latin (Latin: Any dialect of the language of ancient Rome) puns, but Buckeridge discontinued these in later books, apparently in order to maximise their appeal.
		Jennings - son of a business man whose home is at Haywards Heath (Haywards Heath: haywards heath is situated almost 20 miles north of brighton in west sussex, england...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/jennings (637 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Jennings one in $1 million?
		Not bad for a family man who gives a self-deprecating shake of the head when his cash total is announced each night on the show and whose boldest gesture is adding a flourish to his name on the player ID screen.
		Jennings is making the most of a change in "Jeopardy!" rules.
		Jennings expects to invest what he's won for wife Mindy and their 1 1/2-year-old son, Dylan.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595076757,00.html (525 words)

	Ho Chi Minh's Corvette
		I mention the slew of other Nam novels because Jennings seems late to be throwing his cover (to use a Marine term for helmet) into the ring.
		Jennings writes during one firefight, "When we hit the ground I jumped out and landed on top of a Marine who had been shot in the throat.
		Interestingly, Jennings has also written that he wanted to show how the good soldiers who fought the war were betrayed by our military and civilian leaders.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/28/AR2005042801314_pf.html (710 words)

	Gary Jennings information at GaryJennings.com
		Jennings is a well-known author of epic historical novels, each one set in a different period but all sharing the theme of survival by wit and chance in violent times.
		Gary Jennings usually structures his historical novels around a narrator who comes of age in the vicissitudes of the story and then takes his or her life lessons into an adulthood fraught with danger and sexual escapade.
		Before the novel is over we develop, along with the characters, a contempt for non-circus people and a conviction that the only sensible and reasonable thing to do.
	www.garyjennings.com (1374 words)

	USATODAY.com - 'Jeopardy!' champ closes in on $1M (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Jennings' run that started airing June 2 has changed that, especially as he nears $1 million.
		Not bad for a family man who gives a self-deprecating shake of the head when his cash total is announced and whose boldest gesture is adding a flourish to his name on the player ID screen.
		Jennings expects to invest what he's won for wife Mindy and their 1-year-old son, Dylan.
	www.usatoday.com /life/people/2004-07-12-jeopardy_x.htm (866 words)

	PMESGnovels5160.html
		The manuscript for The Case of the Fenced-In Woman was one of two full-length Perry Mason novels left in Erle Stanley Gardner's pending file at the time of his death in 1970.
		It is one of his longest novels, in a format seven-eighths of an inch taller than previous Morrow presentations.
		Jennings was the man identified by Loring in his cross-complaint, because his detective followed the wrong man. He got smeared in the papers because of Loring, whom he wants to get back at!
	www.storrer.com /masongardner/PMESGnovels8182.html (6689 words)

	A Calendar for Sense and Sensibility
		Jennings, John Dashwood, and Nancy Steele (which were probably originally ironically juxtaposed letters) at the center of the novel's structural secondary climax (the first is Lucy's confiding to Elinor that Lucy is engaged to Edward).
		Jennings goes out by herself and Elinor writes her mother a letter urging her to ask Marianne whether she and Willoughby are engaged or not; "her letter scarcely finished," Col.
		Jennings and explains she had "not seven shillings in the world." It is through a later series of letters between Elinor and John Dashwood ("as a consequence of Marianne's illness") and an apparently on-going correspondence between Elinor and Mrs.
	www.jimandellen.org /austen/s&s.calendar.html (12381 words)

	The Search For Jesus. with Peter Jennings. A Hollywood Jesus Review.
		Jennings' two-hour prime-time report, The Search for Jesus, focuses on the historical evidence of Jesus' life and times, introducing the conclusions of some of the world's biblical scholars.
		I saw the Jennings report and since he was obviously reporting and not pontificating I knew he would be subject to the same boo birds who always flock to such a discussion, armed as they think with the one true word.
		For Peter Jennings not to include that Jesus himself (through the Gospels) proclaimed to be the Son of God is not a full account of the facts.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /ABC_Jesus.htm (6347 words)

	Amazon.com: Nam-A-Rama: Books: Phillip Jennings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Jennings manuscript was entitled Nam-a-Rama, a title which led Miss Wimplebottom to believe the subject matter concerned the gentle philosophy of the rural Pandaweet people of northern India.
		Jennings, he of prodigious perversion, for your obvious lack of control over his literary, I choke on the word in reference, ambitions.
		It's a schizophrenic sort of novel that kind of works in its own bizarre way but not really, the satire is sometimes not as focused as one might like, and the surrealism of it gets a bit out of hand.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0765311208?v=glance (3444 words)

	Novels Around the World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		One night while eating dinner and watching Peter Jennings on TV, or I should say watching the commercials between segments of Peter Jennings' sound bites, we realized that the actual news in the thirty minute segment was probably all of twelve minutes at most.
		Novels on this bookshelf will be "of the world," sort of like the section in the music store called World Music.
		For many of these novels will have been written by Americans or people living in America and some may even end up being about their experience as a foreigner living in America.
	mostlyfiction.com /world_ov.htm (984 words)

	Nam-a-rama - Praise
		Jennings was shot down over Dien Bien Phu and is obviously trying to overcome the trauma of being associated with the site of the final French defeat.
		Jennings is not only a hilarious story-teller, he knows his stuff.
		The bravery and ingenuity of the enlisted troops and the officer corps on the ground is demonstrated time and again, and the interaction and actions of the two main characters are a delight to read.
	www.namarama.com /praise.html (1336 words)

	Text to HTML - eNovels
		Pride and Prejudice is a perceptive examination of the relationship between the classes in Britain with middle class, upwardly mobile aspirations to progress rubbing against upper class efforts to keep them "in their place." Austen's adroit depiction of the plight of women in pre-Victorian Europe also shows her superlative insight into her own world.
		Jennings tries to match the worthy (and rich) Colonel Brandon to her, Marianne finds the dashing and fiery Willoughby more to her taste.
		This is the epic novel about the life of a Russian family during the War of 1812.
	www.southernoceansoftware.com /text2html/enovels.html (2419 words)

	Finance Novels
		Jennings was a Wall Street speechwriter but from reading this book, it’s apparent she had some issues with Wall Street.
		Their long list of financial novels are light and moderately entertaining, but in all honesty, their more like Ellery Queen or Nero Wolfe novels, in a business setting.
		She tends to specialize in novels with two themes, each occurring centuries apart, running side by side, and then linked at the end.
	www.bus.lsu.edu /academics/finance/faculty/dchance/MiscProf/FinanceNovels.htm (1076 words)

	WIPO Domain Name Decision: D2001-1042
		Gary Jennings died, the Respondent placed the obituary information on the web site, and at that point, he did not believe there was need to specify that the owner of the site was not Mr.
		Jennings, so he removed the statement " is not affiliated or endorsed by Gary Jennings" because he assumed it was obvious at best, and poor taste at worst.
		Complainants have not alleged that the name "Gary Jennings" is the subject of a trademark application or registration in the United States or in any other country.
	arbiter.wipo.int /domains/decisions/html/2001/d2001-1042.html (2602 words)

	Review \| Moral Hazard and Flesh Tones
		She is dead on when reciting the financial buzzwords of the go-go late 90s: "pro-active," "paradigm," "added value," "outside the box," "a rising tide lifts all boats." Throughout the novel, her voice is infused with this wry intelligence.
		It is the passion of art that Genny loves in Slade Gabriel and discovers in herself, a passion she had only glimpsed in the commerce-driven world of her art dealer father.
		Even in the courtroom where the present time in the novel is set -- after Genny is arrested for her role in Slade Gabriel's death -- she is keenly aware of the "the dirty tarp stretched across the wall hiding the mural of Justice;" the "sense of hyper-reality" to the proceedings:
	www.januarymagazine.com /fiction/moralflesh.html (637 words)

	Third Coast Contests
		Two remarkable novels, Christina Stead's The House of All Nations and Kate Jennings' Moral Hazard, suggest that serious fiction can succeed with this material, although most novelists seem happy to concede the terrain to journalists and talking heads.
		Kate Jennings' view of the New York investment banking world of the nineties is more impressionistic and concise, runs only 175 pages, and is written with a poet’s precision of language.
		The novel spans six years and is made up of two intertwined, complementary narratives.
	www.wmich.edu /thirdcoast/Book_Reviews/Patau_Moral_Hazard.htm (774 words)

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		Jennings, the Palmers, Willoughby, and Lucy Steele are Austen’s separate depictions of vulgar, self-centered, and bland personalities.
		Jennings is shown to be vulgar and also meddles in other people’s marital affairs, much like Emma does as well but on a larger scale: Mrs.
		Jennings, Lady Middleton’s mother, was a good-humored, merry, fat, elderly woman, who talked a great deal, seemed very happy, and rather vulgar.
	filebox.vt.edu /users/suchoi2/Austen.doc (5632 words)

	Film \| Jennings could join Harry on the big screen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Two years ago, Anthony Buckeridge's Jennings novels were out of print.
		"I think Jennings would adapt well to the screen as there is a lot of life in the characters and movement in the plot.
		The books tell the adventures of Jennings and his sidekick, Darbishire, at Linbury Court Preparatory School, and have sold more than six million copies worldwide.
	film.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4374110-100948,00.html (303 words)

	Moral Hazard, Kate Jennings (hardcover, 192 pages, Fourth Estate, 2002); The House of All Nations, Christina Stead ...
		Balancing my checkbook was beyond me, much less understanding option trees.” Her husband Bailey is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, she needs money to pay for his care, and a friend finds her a well-paid job as a speechwriter for a prominent investment bank.
		It succeeds or fails as a novel, not a memoir.
		In the end, she's likely to win you over, with her language, her impeccable sense of pitch and her engaging, tough-minded tone.
	www.wmich.edu /thirdcoast/archive/Moral-Hazard.htm (802 words)

	Paul Jennings - Penguin UK Authors - Penguin UK
		Paul Jennings was the first author to sell a million books in Australia.
		Paul Jennings is one of Australia's bestselling children's authors.
		Everyone has plenty of raw material in their lives to draw on and a lot of my stories are based on my own experiences or those of people around me. Other sources are emotions (such as embarrassment or fear) or things that I would like to happen (such as being able to fly).
	www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000016333,00.html?sym=BIO (1115 words)

	SHSU CAN Beat Ken
		Jennings gives a big smile, moving his head side to side as he listens to the audience, and responds on his transparency to the question: “Name the three volumes in JRR Tolkein’s “Lord of the Rings” trilogy.
		In the style Jennings became known for on the syndicated television show, many of his responses, which were written on transparencies, were accompanied by a comment, or a drawing in one instance.
		In the literature question asking which Australian author won Booker prizes for two of his novels, Jennings wrote and marked out “Paul Hogan” above his correct answer, “Peter Carey.” One of his responses also included “General Hospital or GH as we kids call it” for the question for which “General Hospital” was the correct answer.
	www.shsu.edu /~pin_www/T@S/2005/beatken1105.html (523 words)

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