The Cricket on the Hearth

Charles Dickens

⏱ 8 minVictorian classic

A gentle carrier, his young wife, and a mysterious stranger by the fire, until the fairy Cricket on the hearth pleads for love over jealousy. Dickens's coziest Christmas fairy-tale of home.

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