The Ballad of Peckham Rye (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Muriel Sarah Camberg
- First Published: 1960
- Type of Work: Social satire/farce
- Time of Work: The late 1950’s
- Setting: Peckham Rye, England, a working-class and industrial district about two miles southeast of the central London area
- Principal Characters: Dougal Douglas, Humphrey Place, Dixie Morse, Trevor Lomas, Merle Coverdale, Vincent R. Druce
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire, Farce
- Subjects: 1950’s, Factories, Crime or criminals, Murder or homicide, Religion, City life, Death or dying, London, Ethics, Devils or demons, Comedy
- Locales: Peckham Rye, England
The Novel
The novel’s title refers to the recollection and somewhat inaccurate balladlike retelling by Peckham Rye’s inhabitants of Humphrey Place’s jilting of Dixie Morse at their wedding (when he replied negatively to the minister’s question of whether he would take her as his wife), as well as this event’s antecedents and aftermath. The novel shows how this mishap and several related ones in the lives of other characters were precipitated by or associated with the appearance of Dougal Douglas in Peckham Rye: the mental breakdown of Mr. Weedin, Personnel Manager at...
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