The cricket on the hearth
(2016)
Fiction
eAudiobook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Dreamscape Media, LLC : Made available through hoopla, 2016
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (3hr., 22 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9781520019444 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT11727055, 1520019440 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 11727055
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Read by Simon Prebble
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
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