The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home

The Cricket on the Hearth is a fairy tale short story by Charles Dickens in which a cheerful cricket's chirping on the hearth of carrier John Peerybingle becomes the living heartbeat of his home. When the toy-merchant Tackleton plants seeds of suspicion about John's young wife Dot, the warmth of that humble hearth is thrown into shadow. Jealousy and grief war against years of tender devotion, while blind Bertha Plummer clings to a portrait of the world her loving father has lovingly — and painfully — invented for her. Secrets unravel, disguises fall, and the cricket keeps chirping through it all.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ririro-com-short-stories--6577582/support.