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by P.G. Wodehouse (Author)

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Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (15 April 1993)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0099710102
ISBN-13: 978-0099710103
Product Dimensions: 19.7 x 13 x 1.9 cm

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,276,657 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Jill had money and was engaged to be married to Sir Derek Underhill. But when she suddenly becomes penniless, she finds herself no longer engaged. Refusing to be beaten, she heads for New York, with a smile that betrays a tinge of recklessness, to join the chorus of "The Rose of America".

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P.G. Wodehouse is recognised as the greatest English comic writer of the twentieth century. His characters and settings have entered our language and our mythology. Launched on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death, the Everyman Wodehouse will eventually contain all the novels and stories, edited and reset. Each Everyman volume will be the finest edition of the master ever published. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Jill the sucess, 6 Oct 2007

By	Ian Wood, Author of 'Here's 2 Absent Fathers' - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jill the Reckless (Everyman Wodehouse) (Hardcover)

`Jill the Reckless' or `The Little Warrior' to use it's American title is the tale of `modern' girl Jill and her adventures after losing her fortune, her fianc� and her liberty in one swoop on been arrested for saving a Parrot from some unsavoury costermongers. It is a surprisingly well drawn heroine from the pen of P G Wodehouse for whom the fairy sex was more often than not a mere prop to give the dialogue of his male characters some reasoning.

Wodehouses' characteristic nods to the past are present with Young Threepwood of Blandings fame and the Drones club getting a mention along with George Bevan from `A Damsel in Distress' but this is the story of Jill Mariner and Wally Mason with none of the masters love for sagas.
Uncle Chris has lost Jill's fortune and is endeavouring to secure a second from the widows of New York, marrying the grim Mrs Peagrim is not his idea of a picnic but if it will restore the family fortune then sacrifice is a matter of honour. Derek Underhill steels himself to marry Jill in spite of his fearsome mothers' objections and Freddie Rooke, as a staple Wodehouse ass, endeavours to help in a manner that is never going to trouble the course of true love.

As ever Wodehouse brings matters to a satisfactory conclusion helped with his faultless dialogue, 'How did you know that was the one hat in New York I wanted you to wear?', `Oh, these things get about.'

The book has dated worse than the majority of Wodehouses' work with the characters been accurate studies rather than timeless caricatures but the past can often make us smile with lines no one would commit to print in our PC times such as `Scowling is the civilized man's substitute for wife-beating.' A priceless entry in the Wodehouse cannon.

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