Download or read book The Cricket on the Hearth Illustrated written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-27 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.[1] 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