The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home is a novella by Charles Dickens, published by Bradbury and Evans and released December 20, 1845, with illustrations by Daniel Maclise, John Leech, Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield, and Edwin Henry Landseer. Dickens began writing the book around October 17, 1845, and finished it by December 1. Like all of Dickens' Christmas books, it was published in book form, not as a serial.
Dickens described the novel as “quiet and domestic [...] innocent and pretty." It is subdivided into chapters called “Chirps,” similar to the “Quarters”of The Chimes or the “Staves” of A Christmas Carol. It is the third of Dickens' five Christmas books, preceded by A Christmas Carol (1843) and The Chimes (1844), and followed by The Battle of Life (1846) and The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848).
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