by Charles Dickens · Espasa-Calpe, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423986910
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«El grillo del hogar» is a Christmas story by Charles Dickens, published by Espasa-Calpe in 1998 in paperback (149 pages, in Spanish).
A Christmas story set in a modest home, where the chirping of a cricket acts as a reflection of the family's happiness or sadness. A jealous toymaker tries to sow doubt in the head of the household, but the cricket, with its protective influence, helps restore trust and joy in the home.
Translation by Manuel Ortega y Gasset; original title The Cricket on the Hearth. The book is the third of Dickens's Christmas Books, in the Espasa-Calpe Centenary Collection.
A story suitable for readers of Dickens and for those who enjoy Victorian-set Christmas tales.
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.
