Jill the Reckless: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Jill the Reckless, credited to P.G. Wodehouse, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Jill the Reckless by P. G. Wodehouse. Read by Don W. Jenkins. 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)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Jill the Reckless
• Author credits: P.G. Wodehouse
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 21
• Listed recording duration: 10:35:52

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• wodehouse

Track guide

1. 01 -- The Family Curse — 50:27
2. 02 -- The First Night at the Leicester — 24:40
3. 03 -- Jill and the Unknown Escape — 12:51
4. 04 -- The Last of the Rookes Takes a Hand — 35:17
5. 05 -- Lady Underhill Receives a Shock — 31:15
6. 06 -- Uncle Chris Bangs the Table — 48:22
7. 07 -- Jill Catches the 10.10 — 29:43
8. 08 -- The Dry--Salters Wing Derek — 25:31
9. 09 -- Jill in Search of an Uncle — 20:48
10. 10 -- Jill Ignores Authority — 21:25
11. 11 -- Mr. Pilkington's Love Light — 35:20
12. 12 -- Uncle Chris Borrows a Flat — 27:34
13. 13 -- The Ambassador Arrives — 27:17
14. 14 -- Mr. Goble Makes the Big Noise — 52:28
15. 15 -- Jill Explains — 23:41
16. 16 -- Mr. Goble Plays with Fate — 43:48
17. 17 -- The Cost of a Row — 17:08
18. 18 -- Jill Receives Notice — 36:33
19. 19 -- Mrs. Peagrim Burns Incense — 18:04
20. 20 -- Derek Loses One Bird and Secures Another — 42:34
21. 21 -- Wally Mason Learns a New Exercise — 11:16

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