The Cricket on the Hearth 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).
Language: English
Published in: 1845
Word count: 31,398 words (≈ about 2 hours)
Copyright: Public Domain