{"_id":"6839a1c1a43332aae68e3294","title":"How Theseus Slays the Minotaur","author":"Nathaniel Hawthorne","code":"how-theseus-slays-the-minotaur","publish_year":1853,"publish_source":"Tanglewood Tales","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/wonderbookandtan00hawt/page/176/mode/2up","words":10239,"image":"sword.jpg","image_alt":"A sword in the ground. graphite filter","genres":["adventure","fantasy","childrens"],"description":"A young boy journeys to Athens to meet his father, the King. But he finds his father under the clutches of scheming nephews and a manipulative wife.","blurb":"No peace could they obtain, however, except on condition that they should send seven young men and seven maidens, every year, to be devoured by the pet monster of the cruel King Minos.","unique_cover":"Drawing of Theseus in the labyrinth, hiding from the Minotaur.","cover_source":true,"series":"Greek Legends","has_review":false,"has_collections":false}