The cricket on the hearth
a fairy tale of home
by Charles Dickens, George Alfred Williams, Only Books, daniel maclise, john leech, richard doyel, clarkson standfield, Eliel Aspelin Haapkylä, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, and Albert 1816-1860 Smith
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One of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books
John Peerybingle, a carrier, lives with his young wife Dot, their baby boy and their nanny Tilly Slowboy. A cricket chirps on the hearth and acts as a guardian angel to the family. One day a mysterious elderly stranger comes to visit and takes up lodging at Peerybingle's house for a few days.
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English Christmas stories, Short stories, Christmas stories, Social life and customs, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, English Short stories, Social conditions, England, fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author), British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Children's fiction, Fiction, romance, general, Christmas, fiction, Fairy tales, Large type books, Drama (dramatic works by one author), Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, general, Contes de fées, Histoires de NoëlPeople
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The cricket on the hearth: a fairy tale of home
1846, Printed and published for the author by Bradbury and Evans
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Wolff, R.L. 19th cent. fiction, 1796
Sadleir, M. 19th cent. fiction, 685
Smith, W.E. Charles Dickens in the original cloth, II, 6
Podeschi, J.B. Dickens & Dickensiana, A92
Carr, L. VanderPoel Dickens, B402
Illustrated by Daniel Maclise, Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield, John Leech, and Edwin Landseer.
Actually first published on December 20, 1845. Cf. Smith, W.E. Charles Dickens in the original cloth, II, p. 43.
Added engraved t.p. is one of the two leaves of plates.
The advertisement leaf (p. [1]-[2] at end) is known to exist in two states: in the first state, the advertisement on the recto has ten lines and no heading; in the second state, this advertisement has eleven lines and a heading. Cf. Smith, II, p. 39-40.
For other textual variants due to the use of multiple stereotype plates simultaneously see Smith, II, p. 42-43; Podeschi, J.B. Dickens & Dickensiana, p. 93-95; and Carr, L. VanderPoel Dickens, p. 118-119.
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