One of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books
John Peerybingle, a carrier, lives with his young wife Dot, their baby boy and their nanny Tilly Slowboy. A cricket chirps on the hearth and acts as a guardian angel to the family. One day a mysterious elderly stranger comes to visit and takes up lodging at Peerybingle's house for a few days.
Genres
- English Christmas stories
- Short stories
- Christmas stories
- Social life and customs
- Juvenile fiction
- Fiction
- English Short stories
- Social conditions
- England, fiction
- Fiction, short stories (single author)
- British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Children's fiction
- Fiction, romance, general
- Christmas, fiction
- Fairy tales
- Large type books
- Drama (dramatic works by one author)
- Fiction, historical, general
- Fiction, general
- Contes de fées
- Histoires de Noël
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