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Jill the Reckless |
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Jill had money, Jill was engaged to be married to Sir Derek Underhill. Suddenly Jill becomes penniless, and she is no longer engaged. With a smile, in which there is just a tinge of recklessness, she refuses to be beaten and turns to face the world. Instead she goes to New York and becomes a member of the chorus of "The Rose of America," and Mr. Wodehouse is enabled to lift the curtain of the musical comedy world. There is laughter and drama in _Jill the Reckless_, and the action never flags from the moment that Freddie Rooke confesses that he has had a hectic night, down to the point where Wally says briefly "Let 'em," which is page 313. The heroine here, Jill Mariner, is a young woman from the lower end of the upper class. We follow her through financial disaster, a broken engagement, an awkward stay with some grasping relatives, employment as a chorus girl, and of course, the finding of true love. Other characters include wealthy Drone Freddie Rooke and writer Wally Mason, her childhood friends; her financially inept uncle Major Christopher Selby; her fiancée at the beginning of the book, the M.P Derek Underhill, and his domineering mother, Lady Underhill; Jill's unpleasant relatives, Elmer and Julia Mariner; more Drones Club members, various chorus girls, composers and other theatrical types, and, of course, miscellaneous servants. (Introduction from Gutenberg and Wikipedia) |
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Fiction |
Humor |
Literature |
Music |
Romance |
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Reviews (Rated: 5 Stars - 3 reviews) |
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Reviewer: Anagha Anand - January 2, 2021 Subject: Mathematics The book is nice |
Reviewer: JMB - August 19, 2014 Subject: Highly enjoyable The story is great and the reader did a wonderful job. At first I wasn't too sure about it, but he sure grew on me. |
Reviewer: P. M. - May 12, 2013 Subject: Very nice book, Very nice reader I was a trifle apprehensive at first; I think because his accent is not British but he read the book beautifully. Thank you! |