{"_id":"68db5c50777a3ab6ebd0eef6","title":"The Golden Touch","author":"Nathaniel Hawthorne","code":"the-golden-touch","publish_year":1853,"publish_source":"A Wonder Book For Girls & Boys","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/AWonderBookForGirlsBoys/page/n69/mode/2up","words":7522,"image":"sword.jpg","image_alt":"A sword in the ground. graphite filter","genres":["adventure","fantasy","childrens"],"description":"A rich but unsatisfied King Midas wishes that everything he touched would turn to gold.","blurb":"Midas started up, in a kind of joyful frenzy, and ran about the room, grasping at everything that happened to be in his way. He seized one of the bed-posts, and it became immediately a fluted golden pillar.","cover_position":"top","unique_cover":true,"cover_source":true,"series":"Greek Legends","has_review":false,"has_collections":false}