# Household Words, No. 14, June 29, 1850

Author: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 [Editor]

Genre: English literature -- Periodicals

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78178

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Household+Words%2C+No.+14%2C+June+29%2C+1850+Dickens&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

“The fitful flame of Young Romance,” fed by the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, Fairy tales and Heathen Mythologies; the wonderful fables of Genii and Magicians; stories of towns springing up, ready-built, out of deserts; tales of cities paved with gold; the Happy Valley of Rasselas; the territories of Oberon and Titania, Robert Owen’s New Harmony, and the land of Cockaigne; Gulliver’s Travels, the Adventures of Peter Wilkins, legends of beggars made kings, and mendicants millionaires; Sinbad the Sailor, Baron Munchausen, Law of Laurieston, Major Longbow, Colonel Crocket, the Poyais loan; illimitable exaggeration; undaunted lying; the most rampant schemes of the most rabid speculators; th...

## Chapters

- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-14-june-29-1850-78178/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-14-june-29-1850-78178/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-14-june-29-1850-78178/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-14-june-29-1850-78178/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-14-june-29-1850-78178/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-14-june-29-1850-78178/chapters/6/index.md)