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The Cricket on the Hearth

The Cricket on the Hearth

by Charles Dickens

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One of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books John Peerybingle, a carrier, lives with his young wife Dot, their baby boy and their nanny Tilly Slowboy. A cricket chirps on the hearth and acts as a guardian angel to the family. One day a mysterious elderly stranger comes to visit and takes up lodging at Peerybingle's house for a few days.
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["English Christmas stories" "Short stories" "Christmas stories" "Social life and customs" "Juvenile fiction" "Fiction" "English Short stories" "Social conditions" "England fiction" "Fiction short stories (single author)" "British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)" "Children's fiction" "Fiction romance general" "Christmas fiction" "Fairy tales" "Large type books" "Drama (dramatic works by one author)" "Fiction historical general" "Fiction general" "Contes de f\u00e9es" "Histoires de No\u00ebl"]

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