The Cricket On The Hearth or "The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home" to give it its full title was the third of 5 fames Christmas books written by Charles Dickens. This novella was written and published in 1845. As with the previous Christmas books he decided against standard "chapters" and instead went with "Chirps." The previous two Christmas books from Charles Dickens were A Christmas Carl (unabridged audiobook here - and The Chimes (unabridged audiobook here -
In this tale which Dickens himself called "innocent and pretty" we follow the tangled love story of John Perrybingle and his family watched over by the guardian Cricket on the hearth of the title.
This an English Audiobook, read-aloud by Ruth Golding
Pick up where you left by jumping to the chapters below:
1 - Chirp the first - Part 1 - 00:01
2 - Chirp the first - Part 2 - 32:59
This is Volume 1 of 4 - the other volumes can be found here:
2 - Coming Tomorrow
3 - Coming soon
4 - Coming Soon
Complete unabridged version - Coming soon
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