TY - BOOK AU - Dickens,Charles TI - The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home AV - PR PY - 1996/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction KW - Christmas stories, English KW - Holidays -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cricket_on_the_Hearth; Project Gutenberg has several editions of this eBook: #20795 (Some B & W illustrations) #37581 (Many fine B & W illustrations) #678 (Not illustrated); Release date is 1996-10-01; Transcribed from the Charles Scribner’s Sons “Works of Charles Dickens” edition by David Price; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home" by Charles Dickens is a novella published in 1845. John Peerybingle, a humble carrier, lives happily with his young wife Dot until a mysterious stranger arrives at their home. When John witnesses what appears to be a betrayal between Dot and the disguised lodger, his world shatters. As he contemplates revenge, the cheerful cricket on their hearth reveals visions that challenge everything he believes about his wife's faithfulness and their marriage. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/678 ER -