Charles Dickens
The Cricket on the Hearth - A Fairy Tale of Home
Like
Listen later
Finished
Notes
Add to collection
Summary
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.
Collections
Listen on
From the same publisher
Show publisher
April Hunt
Julie Ann Walker
L. Frank Baum
William M. Struthers
Laura Kaye
From the same authors
Reviews
No reviews yet
Start by writing your own review.