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Cricket on the Hearth, The
A Fairy Tale of Home
Author: Charles Dickens
Narrator: Simon Prebble
Unabridged: 3 hr 21 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 10/25/2016
Category: Fiction - Classics
Synopsis
In the 1840s Charles Dickens wrote 5 short stories with strong social and moral messages. The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home, is the third of these stories. Following the home life of John Peerybingle, the story introduces the many people in John's family and life along with a cricket that acts as the guardian angel of the family. Like its predecessors, this story also contains heavy social and moral implications. However it differs from A Christmas Carol and The Chimes, in that its main theme focuses on actions that affect the family rather than action affecting society as a whole.