The Dickens, Charles 1812-1870 creator Williams, George Alfred 1875-1932 text utu 2007 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "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.) Chirp the First Chirp the Second Chirp the Third 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 2007-03-10 Produced by Jason Isbell, Emma Morgan Isbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Originally published: New York The Platt & Peck Co. Copyright, , by The Baker & Taylor Company, 1905 England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction Christmas stories, English Holidays -- Fiction PR New York The Platt & Peck Co. Copyright, , by The Baker & Taylor Company, 1905 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20795 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20795 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133459.0 20795