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The Ballad of Peckham Rye
First edition cover'
AuthorMuriel Spark
Cover artistVictor Reinganum
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
PublisherMacmillan
Publication date
December 1960
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
ISBN0-333-03233-0
OCLC219982875

The Ballad of Peckham Rye is a novel written in 1960 by the British author Muriel Spark.

It tells the story of a devilish Scottish migrant, Dougal Douglas, who moves to Peckham in London and wreaks havoc amongst the lives of the inhabitants. The text draws upon the supernatural, as well as issues of Irish and Scottish migrancy and offers a critique of the sterile and unremarkable nature of the lives of the Peckham working class.

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