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The Lady, or the Tiger?
About this book
"The Lady, or the Tiger?" is Frank R. Stockton's classic short story in which a condemned man must choose between two doors, one hiding a lady and the other a tiger, ending on an unresolved question. It suits readers who enjoy short literary fiction and open-ended puzzles.
One correction to the catalogue data: this story was first published in 1882, not 1996.
Frank R. Stockton
Frank Richard Stockton 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.
Biography from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Portrait: via Wikipedia (see source).
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