TY - BOOK AU - Dickens,Charles AU - Williams,George Alfred TI - The Cricket on the Hearth AV - PR PY - 2007/// 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 2007-03-10; Chirp the First Chirp the Second Chirp the Third; 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 N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20795 ER -