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The Cricket on the Hearth


A Literary Fiction Novella

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"The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home" is a novella by Charles Dickens, written in 1845.

It is the third of Dickens" five Christmas books, the others being "A Christmas Carol" (1843), "The Chimes" (1844), "The Battle of Life" (1846), and "The Haunted Man" (1847).

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