The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens
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"The Cricket on the Hearth" by Charles Dickens is a novella published in 1845. John Peerybingle, a simple carrier, lives happily with his young wife Dot until a mysterious elderly stranger arrives at their home. When the lodger is revealed to be a young man in disguise, and John witnesses a suspicious encounter between him and Dot, his trust is shattered. As John contemplates his wife's apparent betrayal, the cheerful cricket on
their hearth intervenes to show him the truth about love and loyalty. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Williams, George Alfred, 1875-1932 |
| Title | The Cricket on the Hearth |
| Original Publication |
New York The Platt & Peck Co. Copyright, 1905, by The Baker & Taylor Company |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cricket_on_the_Hearth |
| Note |
Project Gutenberg has several editions of this eBook: #20795 (Some B & W illustrations) #37581 (Many fine B & W illustrations) #678 (Not illustrated) |
| Contents |
Chirp the First Chirp the Second Chirp the Third |
| Credits |
Produced by Jason Isbell, Emma Morgan Isbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 79.7 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction |
| Subject | Christmas stories, English |
| Subject | Holidays -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 20795 |
| Release Date | Mar 10, 2007 |
| Last Update | Aug 8, 2019 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 475 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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