Download or read book The Cricket on the Hearth Classic Edition(Illustrated) written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home is a novella by Charles Dickens, published by Bradbury and Evans, and released 20 December 1845 with illustrations by Daniel Maclise, John Leech, Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield and Edwin Henry Landseer.Dickens began writing the book around 17 October 1845 and finished it by 1 December. Like all of Dickens's Christmas books, it was published in book form, not as a serial.