Christmas

The Cricket On The Hearth or “The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home” to give it its full title was the third of 5 fames Christmas books written by Charles Dickens. This novella was written and published in 1845. As with the previous Christmas books he decided against standard “chapters” and instead went with “Chirps.”

In this tale which Dickens himself called “innocent and pretty” we follow the tangled love story of John Perry Bingle and his family watched over by the guardian Cricket on the hearth of the title.

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens was written in 1843 and has gone on to become THE definitive Christmas story, being adapted many times for stage and screen. The unforgettable Christmas classic tells the story of greedy and bitter banker Ebeneezer Scrooge who is taught a valuable lesson on Christmas Eve by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Future and Present. Will he change his wicked ways and give the gift of Christmas to his employee Bob Cratchit and his ailing son Tiny Tim?