The Cricket on the Hearth: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Cricket on the Hearth, credited to Charles Dickens, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens, in the public domain. The LibriVox catalog page for this work lists the LibriVox readers. John Peerybingle, a carrier, lives with his wife Dot (who is much younger than he), their baby, their nanny Tilly Slowboy, and a mysterious lodger. A cricket constantly chirps on the hearth and acts as a guardian angel to the family, at one point assuming a human voice to warn John that his suspicions that Dot is having an affair with the lodger are wrong. The life of the Peerybingles frequently intersects with that of Caleb Plummer, a poor toymaker employed by the miser Mr. Tackleton. Caleb has a blind daughter Bertha and a son Edward, who travelled to South America and seemingly never returned. (Summary from Wikipedia) For more information on LibriVox, or to volunteer, please see: http://librivox.org/

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Cricket on the Hearth
• Author credits: Charles Dickens
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 10
• Listed recording duration: 3:21:49

Catalogue topics

• fiction

Track guide

1. 00 - Introduction — 5:10
2. 01 - Chirp the First, part 1 — 27:58
3. 02 - Chirp the First, part 2 — 11:14
4. 03 - Chirp the First, part 3 — 20:31
5. 04 - Chirp the Second, part 1 — 19:05
6. 05 - Chirp the Second, part 2 — 19:26
7. 06 - Chirp the Second, part 3 — 28:23
8. 07 - Chirp the Third, part 1 — 26:25
9. 08 - Chirp the Third, part 2 — 21:09
10. 09 - Chirp the Third, part 3 — 22:33

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