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The Lady Or The Tiger And Other Stories By Frank R Stockton
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Book Synopsis The Lady, Or the Tiger? by : Stockton Frank R.
Download or read book The Lady, Or the Tiger? written by Stockton Frank R. and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called the most famous riddle mystery of all time, this very short story poses a dilemma. A man is sentenced to an unusual punishment for having a romance with a king's beloved daughter. Taken to the public arena, he is faced with two doors, behind one of which is a hungry tiger that will devour him. Behind the other is a beautiful lady-in-waiting, whom he will have to marry if he finds her. While the crowd waits anxiously for his decision, he sees the princess among the spectators, who points him to the door on the right with a slight movement of her hand. The lover starts to open the door and ...
Book Synopsis The Lady Or the Tiger and Other Short Stories by : Frank Stockton
Download or read book The Lady Or the Tiger and Other Short Stories written by Frank Stockton and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1992-04-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of stories by the nineteenth century author, featuring his most famous tale, "The Lady or the Tiger," which poses a dilemma that was hotly debated for years after its publication.
Book Synopsis The Lady, Or the Tiger? and Other Stories. By: Frank R. Stockton by : Frank R. Stockton
Download or read book The Lady, Or the Tiger? and Other Stories. By: Frank R. Stockton written by Frank R. Stockton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-12 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Lady, or the Tiger?" is a much-anthologized short story written by Frank R. Stockton for publication in the magazine The Century in 1882. "The Lady, or the Tiger?" has entered the English language as an allegorical expression, a shorthand indication or signifier, for a problem that is unsolvable.The short story takes place in a land ruled by a semi-barbaric king. Some of the king's ideas are progressive, but others cause people to suffer. One of the king's innovations is the use of a public trial by ordeal as an agent of poetic justice, with guilt or innocence decided by the result of chance. A person accused of a crime is brought into a public arena and must choose one of two doors.[1] Behind one door is a lady whom the king has deemed an appropriate match for the accused; behind the other is a fierce, hungry tiger. Both doors are heavily soundproofed to prevent the accused from hearing what is behind each one. If he chooses the door with the lady behind it, he is innocent and must immediately marry her, but if he chooses the door with the tiger behind it, he is deemed guilty and is immediately devoured by it. The king learns that his daughter has a lover, a handsome and brave youth who is of lower status than the princess, and has him imprisoned to await trial. By the time that day comes, the princess has used her influence to learn the positions of the lady and the tiger behind the two doors. She has also discovered that the lady is someone whom she hates, thinking her to be a rival for the affections of the accused. When he looks to the princess for help, she discreetly indicates the door on his right, which he opens. The outcome of this choice is not revealed. Instead, the narrator departs from the story to summarize the princess's state of mind and her thoughts about directing the accused to one fate or the other, as she will lose him to either death or marriage. The story ends with the question, "And so I leave it with all of you: Which came out of the opened door - the lady, or the tiger?..".. Frank Richard Stockton (April 5, 1834 - April 20, 1902) was an American writer and humorist, best known today for a series of innovative children's fairy tales that were widely popular during the last decades of the 19th century.Born in Philadelphia in the year 1834, Stockton was the son of a prominent Methodist minister who discouraged him from a writing career. After he married Mary Ann Edwards Tuttle, they moved to Burlington, New Jersey.where he produced some of his first literary work. The couple then moved to Nutley, New Jersey. For years he supported himself as a wood engraver until his father's death in 1860; in 1867, he moved back to Philadelphia to write for a newspaper founded by his brother. His first fairy tale, "Ting-a-ling," was published that year in The Riverside Magazine; his first book collection appeared in 1870. He was also an editor for Hearth and Home magazine in the early 1870s. He died in 1902 of cerebral hemorrhage and is buried at The Woodlands in Philadelphia.
Download or read book Ting-a-ling written by Frank R. Stockton and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Lady Or the Tiger--The Young Man Must Choose by : Linda Costarella
Download or read book The Lady Or the Tiger--The Young Man Must Choose written by Linda Costarella and published by Linda Costarella. This book was released on 2016-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning where Frank R. Stockon's short story The Lady, or the Tiger? left off, The Lady or the Tiger-- The Young Man Must Choose takes us back in time to the kingdom of a semi-barbaric ruler. The king had imprisoned a young man, a mere commoner in his court, in his castle dungeon because of the man's relationship with his daughter, the princess. Now the king is forcing the young man to make a choice that will separate him from the beautiful princess, and alter the course of his life forever. This book contains black and white pictures. The story is a page-turner filled with excitement and surprises.
Book Synopsis The Griffin and the Minor Canon by : Frank R. Stockton
Download or read book The Griffin and the Minor Canon written by Frank R. Stockton and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-11-08 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of Frank Stockton's original fairytales re-illustrated by Maurice Sendak. When a griffin shows great fondness for the sculpture of himself above the great door of the church, and equal admiration for the Minor Canon, the townspeople fear that the terrifying creature will live among them forever.
Book Synopsis Great Stories of Suspense & Adventure by : Beth Johnson
Download or read book Great Stories of Suspense & Adventure written by Beth Johnson and published by Townsend Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High interest-low vocabulary books.
Book Synopsis The Associate Hermits by : Frank R. Stockton
Download or read book The Associate Hermits written by Frank R. Stockton and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Associate Hermits" by Frank R. Stockton. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Tiger Queen written by Annie Sullivan and published by Blink. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “TIGER QUEEN is a gorgeous, lush YA fiction…Highly recommend for anyone looking for a beautifully crafted stand-alone book.” (YA and Kids Book Central) Two doors. Two choices. Life or death. Kateri, an arrogant warrior princess, has to fight in the arena against her suitors to win her right to rule, and she is desperate to prove to her father that she is strong enough to take over his throne and rule the kingdom. But when she finds out her final opponent, she knows she cannot win. Kateri flees to the desert to train under the enemy she hates the most and the only one who might be able to give her a shot at winning. But what Kateri discovers in the desert twists her world—and her heart—upside down. There in the sand, away from the comforts of the palace, Kateri’s perception of her father is challenged and she discovers the truth about his treatment of her people. When she returns to the kingdom, the fate of the one she loves lies behind two doors in the arena—one door leads to happiness, and the other door releases the tiger. Secrets, suitors, thieves, and a fierce princess await readers in this YA fantasy re-telling. Tiger Queen: Is a fantasy re-telling of Frank Stockton’s famous short story, “The Lady, or the Tiger?” Features a slow-burn romance wrapped in fast-paced adventure Is set in a fantastical world wrought by fascism, classism, and climate crisis
Book Synopsis Rudder Grange by : Frank Richard Stockton
Download or read book Rudder Grange written by Frank Richard Stockton and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy by : Frank Richard Stockton
Download or read book Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy written by Frank Richard Stockton and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discovery book for children, with illustrations and instructive chapters on light, animals, music, weather, soldiers, food, insects, ad infinitum.
Download or read book The Lottery written by Shirley Jackson and published by The Creative Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A seemingly ordinary village participates in a yearly lottery to determine a sacrificial victim.
Book Synopsis Rudder Grange by : Frank R. Stockton
Download or read book Rudder Grange written by Frank R. Stockton and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Lady Or the Lion by : Aamna Qureshi
Download or read book The Lady Or the Lion written by Aamna Qureshi and published by Marghazar Trials. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once there was a princess forced to choose a fate for her lover-to a future in the arms of a beautiful lady, or to death in the mouth of a lion?
Book Synopsis The Guide to Supernatural Fiction by : Everett Franklin Bleiler
Download or read book The Guide to Supernatural Fiction written by Everett Franklin Bleiler and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Uncertain Endings written by Otto Penzler and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of nineteen unsolved mystery stories by a number of noted authors including Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, and Mark Twain where the ending is left up to the reader to determine
Book Synopsis Adventures in Reading by : Evann Lodge, Marjorie Braymer
Download or read book Adventures in Reading written by Evann Lodge, Marjorie Braymer and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
