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The Cricket on the Hearth audiobook

  • By: Charles Dickens
  • Narrator: Simon Prebble
  • Category: Fiction, General
  • Length: 3 hours 21 minutes
  • Publisher: Public Domain
  • Publish date: October 25, 2016
  • Language: English
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The Cricket on the Hearth Audiobook Summary

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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The Cricket on the Hearth Audiobook Narrator

Simon Prebble is the narrator of The Cricket on the Hearth audiobook that was written by Charles Dickens

Simon Prebble has played in everything from soaps to Shakespeare on stage and television, but it is as a veteran narrator of over four hundred audiobooks that he has made his mark since coming to the United States in 1990. One of AudioFile’s Golden Voices, he has received over twenty Earphones Awards and five Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards, and he has been a finalist fourteen times for an Audie Award. He was Publishers Weekly’s 2006 Narrator of the Year and Booklist’s 2010 Voice of Choice.

About the Author(s) of The Cricket on the Hearth

Charles Dickens is the author of The Cricket on the Hearth

The Cricket on the Hearth Full Details

Narrator Simon Prebble
Length 3 hours 21 minutes
Author Charles Dickens
Category
Publisher Public Domain
Release date October 25, 2016
ISBN 9781666588804

Subjects

The publisher of the The Cricket on the Hearth is Public Domain. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, General

Additional info

The publisher of the The Cricket on the Hearth is Public Domain. The imprint is Public Domain. It is supplied by Public Domain. The ISBN-13 is 9781666588804.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

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