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The Cricket On The Hearth: Charles Dickens
The Cricket On The Hearth: Charles Dickens
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Dickens wrote five Christmas Books in all, the first and best known being A Christmas Carol. The CricketOn The Hearth is third in the series but probably the second favourite in line. The Cricket of the title is a barometer of life at the home of John Peerybingle and his much younger wife, Dot. When things go well, the cricket on the hearth chirps; it is silent when there is sorrow. Tackleton, a jealous old man, poisons John's mind about Dot. The cricket, a creature long credited in many cultures with supernatural abilities, has his work cut out for him to detoxify good John's mind of the horrible suspicions the repulsive old Tackleton has sown. Illustrated by Gordon Robinson.
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Antiquities & Oddities, Undated Epworth Press edition c. 1920s; hardback; pictorial boards; age toning to page edges; colour plate frontispiece; tightly bound and clean within; slight wear to top of spineShare
