Charles Dickens 2 hr 9 min read

A cricket on the hearth serves as guardian spirit to a humble household, whose homely happiness is tested by jealousy and misunderstanding before all is set right.

This French edition presents Charles Dickens's 1845 'The Cricket on the Hearth,' one of his beloved Christmas fairy tales. Warm, sentimental, gently magical. Read it for a cozy Dickens Christmas fantasy of domestic love and a guardian cricket, in French.

In its time

Published in 1845, during the 1840s, mystery, mesmerism, and the proto-scientific tale in the age of poe and gautier.

Reading it

2 hr 9 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).