The Dickens, Charles 1812-1870 creator Doyle, Richard 1824-1883 Landseer, Edwin Henry, Sir 1802-1873 Leech, John 1817-1864 Maclise, Daniel 1806-1870 Stanfield, Clarkson 1793-1867 text utu 2011 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "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 elderly stranger arrives at their home. When the lodger is revealed to be a young man in disguise, and John witnesses an intimate moment between him and Dot, his world shatters. As jealousy consumes him, the cheerful cricket on their hearth intervenes with visions that challenge everything John believes about his wife's faithfulness. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 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 2011-10-01 Produced by Chris Curnow, Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Original publication data not identified England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction Christmas stories, English Holidays -- Fiction PR Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37581 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37581 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133845.0 37581