by Charles Dickens · Espasa-Calpe, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423925896
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«El grillo del hogar» is the short novel by Charles Dickens, published by Espasa-Calpe in paperback (131 pages, in Spanish).
A tale set in a humble home where the cricket acts as guardian of domestic life. Dickens combines tenderness and misunderstandings to celebrate reconciliation and family warmth, in a brief story with a fairy-tale air and Victorian setting.
Translation by Manuel Ortega y Gasset from «The Cricket on the Hearth»; 2000 edition in the Clásicos Breves collection by Espasa-Calpe.
For readers of Victorian classics and Christmas tales who appreciate short, heartwarming stories.
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.
