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Date: 1845

Fiction Fiction The Cricket on the Hearth

Charles Dickens

1845

The story develops in three days and is divided into three songs. The cricket, a symbol of peace in the humble homes, is the axis of the story: in the first song, the cricket is happy; in the second, it is silent; in the third, it is resung.

Adventures Adventures Queen Margarita

Alexandre Dumas

1845

In this novel Dumas portrays with mastery the intrigues of the French court using as a starting stage the sponges of the Infanta Margarita or Margot de Valois and one of the most bloody episodes in history: the massacre of the Night of San Bartolomé, which culminated in the mass murder of Hugonotes.