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The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home Audiobook, by Charles Dickens Play Audiobook Sample

The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home Audiobook

The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home Audiobook, by Charles Dickens Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Simon Prebble Publisher: Dreamscape Media Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 2.17 hours at 1.5x Speed 1.63 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: October 2018 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781666588804

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

5

Longest Chapter Length:

73:57 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

21 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

40:12 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

198

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Publisher Description

In the 1840s Charles Dickens wrote 5 short stories with strong social and moral messages. The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home, is the third of these stories. Following the home life of John Peerybingle, the story introduces the many people in John's family and life along with a cricket that acts as the guardian angel of the family. Like its predecessors, this story also contains heavy social and moral implications. However it differs from A Christmas Carol and The Chimes, in that its main theme focuses on actions that affect the family rather than action affecting society as a whole.

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"Heartwarming stories I am assuming are sketches for Christmas Carol."

— Rachael (4 out of 5 stars)

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About Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens (1812–1870) was born in Landport, Portsmouth, England, the second of eight children in a family continually plagued by debt. A legacy brought release from the nightmare of debtors’ prison and child labor and afforded him a few years of formal schooling. He worked as an attorney’s clerk and newspaper reporter until his early writings brought him the amazing success that was to be his for the remainder of his life. He was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and he remains popular, responsible for some of English literature’s most iconic characters.

About Simon Prebble

Simon Prebble, a British-born performer, is a stage and television actor and veteran narrator of some three hundred audiobooks. As one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices, he has received thirty-seven Earphones Awards and won the prestigious Audie in 2010. He lives in New York.