The Cricket On The Hearth - 9781530361892

The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home is a novella by Charles Dickens, published by Bradbury and Evans, and released 20 December 1845 with illustrations by Daniel Maclise, John Leech, Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield and Edwin Henry Landseer.[1] Dickens began writing the book around 17 October 1845 and finished it by 1 December. Like all of Dickens's Christmas books, it was published in book form, not as a serial.[2] Dickens described the novel as "quiet and domestic [...] innocent and pretty."[2] It is subdivided into chapters called "Chirps", similar to the "Quarters" of The Chimes or the "Staves" of A Christmas Carol. It is the third of Dickens's five Christmas books, preceded by A Christmas Carol (1843) and The Chimes (1844), and followed by The Battle of Life (1846) and The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848).

• • Author: Charles Dickens, Jhon La Cruz
• • Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• • Publication Date: Mar 04, 2016
• • Number of Pages: 90 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1530361893
• • ISBN-13: 9781530361892