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The story served as inspiration for Raymond Smullyan's puzzle book by the same title, The Lady, or the Tiger?. [5] The first set of logic puzzles in the book had a similar scenario to the short story in which a king gives each prisoner a choice between a number of doors; behind each one was either a lady or a tiger. However, the king bases the ...
They show a traditional trial: the prisoner is put into a large arena with two doors. Behind one door is a beautiful woman - if the prisoner chooses that door, he is innocent and is required to marry the woman. Behind the other door is a ravenous tiger. If the prisoner chooses that door, he is deemed guilty and the tiger will kill him.
These last two stories were republished in 1963 and 1964, respectively, in editions illustrated by Maurice Sendak. "The Griffin and the Minor Canon" won a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1963. His most famous fable, "The Lady, or the Tiger?" (1882), is about a man sentenced to an unusual punishment for having a romance with a king's beloved ...
The Black Cat (short story) The Black Monk; Blackmailers Don't Shoot; The Body Snatcher; The Boogeyman (short story) The Book of Sand; The Boscombe Valley Mystery; The Bottle Imp; A Boy and His Dog; The Bread; Breaking Strain; The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky; The Bridge (short story) Brokeback Mountain (short story) By This Axe I Rule!
nice story. I think the lady kills the dragon. this story is a cliffhanger! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.60.241.217 10:44, 10 November 2011 (UTC) i think the suitor chose the tiger <3 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.60.241.217 11:04, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
Trio (also known as W. Somerset Maugham's Trio) is a 1950 British anthology film based on three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham: "The Verger", "Mr Know-All" and "Sanatorium". Ken Annakin directed "The Verger" and "Mr Know-All", while Harold French was responsible for "Sanatorium".
The Toronto Zoo is investigating an incident where a woman appeared to jump over a protective fence into a tiger’s pen to recover a fallen hat.
The Bloody Chamber (or The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories) is a collection of short stories by English writer Angela Carter. It was first published in the United Kingdom in 1979 by Gollancz [1] and won the Cheltenham Festival Literary Prize. The stories are all based on fairytales or folk tales. However, Carter has stated: