The Cricket on the Hearth A Fairy Tale of Home: Classic edition with original illustrations by Charles Dickens

The Cricket on the Hearth A Fairy Tale of Home: Classic edition with original illustrations

The Christmas Books #3

Charles Dickens

122 pages first pub 1845 (editions)

fiction classics adventurous emotional reflective slow-paced
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The title creature is a sort of barometer of life at the home of John Peerybingle and his much younger wife Dot. When things go well, The cricket on the hearth chirps; it is silent when there is sorrow. Tackleton, a jealous old man, poisons John's...

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