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| + | ====== The Cricket on the Hearth ====== | ||
| + | ===== Homepage ===== | ||
| + | * Website: See below | ||
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| + | ===== Description ===== | ||
| + | **The Cricket on the Hearth** is a Christmas-themed novella by Charles Dickens, originally published in December of 1845. [[directory:l:librivox|]] offers two recordings of the story. | ||
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| + | <blockquote>The tale of John Peerybingle, the good-hearted carrier, and his young wife Mary ('Dot'), interwoven with the story of poor toymaker Caleb Plummer, his beloved blind daughter Bertha, and the harsh old toy merchant Tackleton, who is due to marry May Fielding, a childhood friend of Dot. Comic relief is provided by Tilly Slowboy, the disaster-prone nursemaid of John and Dot's baby, and Boxer, the family dog. | ||
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| + | The cricket who chirps on the family hearth assumes fairy form to save the day when disaster looms in the form of a mysterious stranger.</blockquote> | ||
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| + | ===== Additional Links ===== | ||
| + | * [[https://librivox.org/the-cricket-on-the-hearth-by-charles-dickens/|The Cricket on the Hearth]] | ||
| + | * [[http://librivox.org/rss/1144|The Cricket on the Hearth RSS feed]] | ||
| + | * [[https://librivox.org/the-cricket-on-the-hearth-by-charles-dickens-2/|The Cricket on the Hearth (Version 2)]] | ||
| + | * [[http://librivox.org/rss/6063|The Cricket on the Hearth (Version 2) RSS feed]] | ||
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| + | {{tag>fantasy free}} | ||