Mr Pye

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Book cover of Mr Pye featuring Derek Jacobi in the title role of the TV adaptation. He is standing on La Coupeé isthmus.

Mr Pye is a short 1953 novel by English novelist Mervyn Peake.

Set on the Channel Island of Sark, it is a Christian allegory. When Mr Pye does something good, he grows angel's wings, and when he does something bad, he gains diabolical characteristics. It is a relatively tightly-structured novel in which God implicitly mocks the evangelical pretensions, hypocrisy and cosy world-view of the eponymous hero.

In 1986 Mr Pye was adapted as a four-part Channel 4 miniseries starring Derek Jacobi filmed on Sark itself. It was also adapted into a radio play, by the author, in the 1950s.

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Mr Pye at the Internet Movie Database

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