Besides, the kettle was aggravating and obstinate.It wouldn't allow itself to be adjusted on the top bar; it wouldn't hear of accommodating itself kindly to the knobs of coal; it WOULD lean forward with a drunken air, and dribble, a very Idiot of a kettle, on the hearth.It was quarr...
TheCricketontheHearth:AFairyTaleofHomeisanovellabyCharlesDickens,publishedbyBradburyandEvans,andreleased20December1845withillustrationsbyDanielMaclise,JohnLeech,RichardDoyle,ClarksonStanfieldandEdwinHenryLandseer.Dickensbeganwritingthebookaround17October1845andfinisheditby1December.LikeallofDickens'sChristmasbooks,itwas...
内容简介:Dickens gave his first formal expression to his Christmas thoughts in his series of small books, the first of which was the famous "Christmas Carol." There followed four others: "The Chimes," "The Cricket on the Hearth," "The Battle of Life," and "The Haunted Man." The five...
From Katherine Kroeber Wiley's Introduction to A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, and The Cricket on the Hearth"Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that." Thus begins Dickens's most famous and yet poorly understood work. It does not start with a description of Sc...
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The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens is a Fairy Tale of Home. This novella 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 ...
Dickens Christmas Books, in Large Print, Volume 3: The Cricket on the Hearth is the third in a series of five novels that Charles Dickens wrote for the Christmas season. This LARGE PRINT edition is designed in 14-point Century Schoolbook for easy reading and includes an original introduction ...
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《The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home》(Charles Dickens)内容简介: Charles Dickens needs no formal introduction, having been the most popular English writer of the 1...