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The Lady, or the Tiger?

Frank R. Stockton

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  • Book language: English
  • 9 pages

'The Lady, or the Tiger?' is a short story by Frank R. Stockton. It is set in a semi-barbaric kingdom where a king devises a public arena for justice: the accused must choose between two doors, behind which wait a lady or a tiger. The story examines choice and consequence, and leaves the reader with a question.

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THE LADY, OR THE TIGER?

by

Frank R. Stockton

In the very olden time there lived a semi-barbaric king, whose ideas, though somewhat polished and sharpened by the progressiveness of distant Latin neighbors, were still large, florid, and untrammeled, as became the half of him which was barbaric. He was a man of exuberant fancy, and, withal, of an authority so irresistible that, at his will, he turned his varied fancies into facts. He was greatly

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  1. THE LADY, OR THE TIGER?
  2. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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