The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home

by Charles Dickens

1865 · England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction, Christmas stories, English, Holidays -- Fiction, Children's Literature · 30 chapters

Children's literature in 3 chapters by Charles Dickens. It opens on John, with Tackleton and Caleb alongside. It begins: “Peerybingle may leave it on record to the end of time that she couldn’t say which of them began it; but, I say the kettle did”.

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