The Cricket on the Hearth

Written by Charles Dickens

Narrated by Michael Ward

The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home is a novella by Charles Dickens, published by Bradbury and Evans, and released 20 December 1845 . A homely tale about stout Parcel Carrier John Peerybingle, his small young wife Dot, Caleb Plummer and his blind Daughter Bertha, their employer the gruff old Mr Tackleton and his young bride to be and what portentous consequences the arrival of mysterious old man means for them all.

Narrated by Michael Ward.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Michael Ward
• Release date: Dec 18, 2018
• ISBN: 9781667951560

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and grew up in poverty. This experience influenced ‘Oliver Twist’, the second of his fourteen major novels, which first appeared in 1837. When he died in 1870, he was buried in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey as an indication of his huge popularity as a novelist, which endures to this day.