Jill the Reckless (The Collector's Wodehouse)
by P. G. Wodehouse
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Author: P. G. WodehouseEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-04-07
ISBN: 1585676608
Number of pages: 290
Publisher: Overlook Hardcover
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Summary: 5 Stars
`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 fiancé 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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