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The Cricket on the Hearth

(A Fairy Tale of Home)

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Author(s):Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):Richard Doyle
Edwin Landseer
John Leech
Daniel Maclise
Clarkson Stanfield
Publisher(s): Bradbury & Evans
Year Published: 1846
Type: Hardcover
Genre: British
Fantasy - English
Fiction - Novel
Age Range: Ages 7-9: Short Chapter Books
Pages: 174
ISBN-10: 0192545140
ISBN-13: 9780192545145
OCLC: 1213622

Description

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

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Other Editions

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: Harper & Brothers
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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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Recommended Books

Vanity Fair (1848)

A grand novel set at the time of the Napoleonic Wars and their aftermath featuring the heartless adventuress Becky Sharp. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Publisher: Bradbury & Evans
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Burlesques: Novels by Eminent Hands (1869)

Includes Jeames’s Diary, Adventures of Major Gahagan, A Legend of the Rhine, The History of the Next French Revolution, Cox’s Diary and Rebecca and Rowena.

There were many other editions in the collected works of Thackeray. But Doyle appears to have illustrated only Rebecca and Rowena.

Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Publisher: Belford Clarke & Co.•Estes & Lauriat•Smith, Elder & Co.
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