The Cricket on the Hearth

The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: THE kettle began it! Don't tell me what Mrs.
Peerybingle said. I know better. Mrs. Peerybingle may leave it on record to the end of time that she couldn't say which of them began it; but, I say the kettle did. I ought to know, I hope! The kettle began it, full five minutes by the little waxy-faced D This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.