The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home

Although a best seller in its day The Cricket on the Hearth is seen by many of this generation as standing in the shadow of Charles Dickens more popular volume A Christmas Carol.Undeservedly so!A more-than-delightful trace through a Victorian Christmas Dickens tells the story of a kindly couple and their mysterious lodger a poor toymaker and his blind daughter a lost son and a parsimonious toy merchant set upon marrying a virtuous young maiden against her better desires.But as youd expect from Dickens a magic of sorts is stirring amidst the storys participants--all under the watchful eyes of a songful cricket that as Dickens takes hold of your imagination may prove to be something so much more.