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The Cricket on the Hearth

(A Fairy Tale of Home)

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Author(s):Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):F. D. Bedford
Publisher(s): Harper & Brothers
Year Published: 1927
Type: Hardcover
Genre: British
Fantasy - English
Fiction - Novel
Age Range: Ages 13-18: Young Adult
Pages: 182
OCLC: 4368461

Description

This, the most popular of Dickens’ Christmas books, tells a domestic story of the Peerybingle family and their friends. This edition has many more illustrations than the 1899 edition.

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Other Editions

The Cricket on the Hearth (1846)

This the the most popular of Dickens’ Christmas books tells a domestic story of the Peerybingle family. Read online at archive.org.

Publisher: Bradbury & Evans
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Christmas Books (1869)

An omnibus containing the five Christmas books: A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain, and The Battle of Life.

Publisher: Chapman and Hall
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The Cricket on the Hearth (1899)

This, the most popular of Dickens’ Christmas books, tells a domestic story of the Peerybingle family and their friends.

Publisher: Chapman and Hall
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The Cricket on the Hearth (1927)

This, the most popular of Dickens’ Christmas books, tells a domestic story of the Peerybingle family and their friends. This edition has many more illustrations than the 1899 edition.

Publisher: Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd.
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