The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens, Fiction, Literary (Paperback)

from wvlibrarydude

Started slow with dialogue and action that became confusing at time. It took about two thirds of the book to get to where things started to develop into a story one could follow. The writing quickly turned into a story that drew me in and held me to the end. A four star except for the beginning, ...

from mikedraper

It takes a while for the reader to understand what is happening in this story. Possibly, I'm used to a long character development in novels and this is a short story. I also didn't understand what was meant by a cricket in the hearth. Caleb lives in an impoverished home with his blind daughter, B...

from quondame

What could project Gutenberg be thinking to put that constipated cricket cover on this book. 3 old men, 3 young women, one married to one of old men, one the daughter, one the fiance. This depiction of domesticity in a May-October relationship shadowed by the obvious blight in the coming May-Dece...

from MrsLee

A man and woman happily married only one year, with a new baby, invite a stranger into their home. In the next few days, their marriage is practically dissolved by misunderstandings. In this story we meet several of their neighbors as well. All lovely characters, created by the master character b...

from nosajeel

Nowhere close to A Christmas Carol, and a little overly sentimental, the biggest virtue of the book is Tackleton, the cynical toymaker, although his conversion to good at the end is unconvincing and never would have happened in one of Dickens' novels.