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The Cricket on the Hearth: The Lost Christmas Classic
- Stories for Everyone
- Narrated by: Cyril Taylor-Carr, The Cliff
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
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The Cricket on the Hearth: The Lost Christmas Classic
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Publisher's Summary
The Cricket on the Heart is a novella by Charles Dickens, published by Bradbury and Evans, and released 20 December 1845. Dickens began writing the book in October 1845 and finished it by December. Like all of Dickens’s Christmas books, it was published in book form, not as a serial. Dickens described the novel as “quiet and domestic innocent and pretty.” It is subdivided into chapters called “Chirps”, similar to the “Quarters” of The Chimes or the “Staves” of A Christmas Carol. It is the third of Dickens’s five Christmas books, preceded by A Christmas Carol (1843) and The Chimes (1844), and followed by The Battle of Life (1846) and The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain (1848).