The cricket on the hearth
a fairy tale of home
by Charles Dickens
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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, generalPeople
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The cricket on the hearth: a fairy tale of home
1913, Clark Bors.
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Edition Notes
Original issued in series: Macmillan's literature series ; no. 34.
Includes list of titles in the series.
Bibliography: p. 18-19.
Filmed from a copy of the original publication held by McMaster University, Mills Memorial Library, Hamilton. Ottawa : Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions, 1998.
124 p. ; 18 cm.
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