Description

The Cricket On The Hearth – A Fairy Tale of Home by Charles Dickens

Short tale written by Charles Dickens as a Christmas book for 1845 but published in 1846. 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 mind about Dot, but the cricket through its supernatural powers restores John's confidence and all ends happily.

Features;

• Publisher Frederick Warne & Co, London; 1927
• Brown Cloth Hardback With Gilt Title, 182 pp
• Illustrated with 8 Colour and 6 B&W plates and numerous in text illustrations by Francis D. Bedford
• Size 220 x 165 mm, 0.75 kg

Condition: Good – No Dust Jacket, Repair To Spine, Rubbing To Edges, No Inscriptions, Good Copy

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