The Lady or the Tiger?

Name: The Lady or the Tiger?
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Frank R. Stockton
ISBN: 9781467668125

Author: Frank R. Stockton

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Unabridged: 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Red Door Consulting

Published: 07/06/2011

Categories: Fiction, Classic, Short Stories

Synopsis

"The Lady Or The Tiger?" is Frank R. Stockton's most famous work, first published in 1882. The semi-barbaric ruler of an ancient kingdom has devised an unusual method of justice. Offenders are placed in the arena of an amphitheatre where they must choose between two doors. Behind one is a hungry tiger and behind the other a beautiful woman whom they will marry. Their fate is left entirely to chance. When the king's daughter's secret lover is accused, only she knows which door hides which destiny. But which will she tell him to take? The one which will mean his certain death or the one which will mean he marries the woman she most hates?

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sandra on April 14, 2019

Interesting, thought-provoking short story. It is up to the reader to interpret the ending.......more

Goodreads review by Sidrah on April 23, 2019

THE LADY OR THE TIGER? This a story where the author is asking you a question to allow yourself to verify your own moral values and character to yourself. What would you select for the one you love? What would you choose for yourself? Would it be vice or virtue? Which option you can remain with for the......more

Goodreads review by Mohsin on February 08, 2017

I HAD first read Frank Richard Stockton's "The Lady or the Tiger?" in an English textbook in the late 1970s and instantly fell in love with it. It was the first short story that I had read in which the ending was left to the logical reasoning of the reader. Today I read it for the second time and lo......more

Goodreads review by Ahmed on March 04, 2017

This is a first story I read in which the author is asking me what would be the ending. Isn't it interesting? I haven't read anything like this before. Or I doubt I ever would. OVERVIEW A man and the Princess love each other. King finds out and punishes the man for this deed. The punishment is: Ther......more