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    Jill the Reckless
    Jill the Reckless
    Jill the Reckless
    Audiobook10 hours

    Jill the Reckless

    Written by P.G. Wodehouse

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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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 went to New York and became 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)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    Author

    P.G. Wodehouse

    P.G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) nació en Surrey. Tras trabajar un tiempo como periodista en Inglaterra, se trasladó a los Estados Unidos. Escribió numerosas obras de teatro y comedias musicales, y más de noventa novelas. Creador de personajes inolvidables -Jeeves, Bertie Wooster, su tía Agatha, Ukridge, Psmith, Lord Emsworth, los lechuguinos del Club de los Zánganos, y tantos otros, sus obras se reeditan continuamente, como corresponde a uno de los grandes humoristas del siglo.

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    • 3/5
      I love the book— early Wodehouse, and one of the better ones from that period. Unfortunately, this Librivox recording is not up to the task. Wodehouse just doesn’t sound right in broad American accents, and this reader’s is particularly Western US. It’s also an utterly untheatrical reading. If you’re a slavish fan of Jonathan Cecil’s perfection as a PGW narrator, you won’t be able to endure this, and should just bite the bullet and read it the old fashioned way: with your eyeballs.

      It’s hard to rate an audiobook star-wise in a case like this. I’d give the book a 5, and the performance a 1, so I guess that makes the average a 3, but I would definitely steer clear of this one. Cecil did not get to it, and we must accept it, and move on…alas!
    • 5/5
      This book made me laugh out loud. It is possibly my favorite of Wodehouse’s novels. The narrator was a little high pitched at first, but I just set the speed at .8 and that fixed it.