Fiction
'The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home' is a novella by Charles Dickens. The story centers on a carrier named John Peerybingle who lives with his young wife Dot, their baby boy and their nanny Tilly Slowboy. A cricket chirps on the hearth and acts as a guardian angel to the family. One day a mysterious elderly stranger comes to visit and takes up lodging at Peerybingle's house for a few days. The life of the Peerybingles intersects with that of Caleb Plummer, a poor toymaker employed by the miser Mr. Tackleton. Caleb has a blind daughter Bertha, and a son Edward, who traveled to South America and is thought to be dead.
© 2019 Good Press (Ebook): 4057664646989
Release date
Ebook: 21 November 2019
Fiction
'The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home' is a novella by Charles Dickens. The story centers on a carrier named John Peerybingle who lives with his young wife Dot, their baby boy and their nanny Tilly Slowboy. A cricket chirps on the hearth and acts as a guardian angel to the family. One day a mysterious elderly stranger comes to visit and takes up lodging at Peerybingle's house for a few days. The life of the Peerybingles intersects with that of Caleb Plummer, a poor toymaker employed by the miser Mr. Tackleton. Caleb has a blind daughter Bertha, and a son Edward, who traveled to South America and is thought to be dead.
© 2019 Good Press (Ebook): 4057664646989
Release date
Ebook: 21 November 2019
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