Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cricket_on_the_Hearth

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#20795 (Some B & W illustrations)
#37581 (Many fine B & W illustrations)
#678 (Not illustrated)

Release date is 2007-03-10

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"The Cricket on the Hearth" by Charles Dickens is a novella published in 1845. John Peerybingle, a simple carrier, lives happily with his young wife Dot until a mysterious elderly stranger arrives at their home. When the lodger is revealed to be a young man in disguise, and John witnesses a suspicious encounter between him and Dot, his trust is shattered. As John contemplates his wife's apparent betrayal, the cheerful cricket on their hearth intervenes to show him the truth about love and loyalty. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Originally published: New York The Platt & Peck Co. Copyright, , by The Baker & Taylor Company, 1905