Publisher's Synopsis
The Cricket on the Hearth: Annotated by Charles Dickens "The Cricket on the Hearth" A Fairy novel was written by Charles Dickens published on December 20, 1845, by Bradbury and Evans.The plot of a story about a happy 19th-century English country household John Peerybingle, a carrier, lives with his young wife Dot, their baby boy and their nanny Tilly Slowboy until the arrival of a mysterious stranger.
