Tanglewood Tales

Six more Greek myths retold for children in a New England drawing room — Theseus and the Minotaur, Antaeus and the Pygmies, Circe's palace, the dragon's teeth, the golden fleece. Hawthorne wrote them a year after A Wonder Book, keeping the same fictional student narrator and the same refusal to make the gods dignified. The Circe chapter is the strongest and the least suitable, which is why children remember it.