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The Lady or the Tiger by Frank Stockton for ESL Students

The Lady or the Tiger by Frank Stockton with a podcast and vocabulary practice for advanced ESL students The Lady or the Tiger is now in the public domain available on Gutenberg Project Podcast of the Lady or the Tiger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfeuLWZB48I The Lady or the Tiger 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, ...

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6 thoughts on “The Lady or the Tiger by Frank Stockton for ESL Students”

  1. I assume that she maybe preferred his lover to be dead than be with another, but that eye contact in the end changes everything. She had lost him anyway, so her love for him couldn’t let her see his fatal death and she saved him.

    • Thank you, Armaghan, for expressing your opinion on the story of The Lady or the Tiger.
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      1. than be with another = rather than be with another

  2. This story was really great and the name of it was pretty shocking and I really get shocked by the name of this story.

    • Thank you, Soroosh, for commenting on the story of The Lady or the Tiger.

  3. I guess that princess out of jealousy and barbaric nature which passed to her from his ancestors would choose the saddest fate for her lover.

    • Thank you, Dr. Hooshmand, for commenting on this short story.
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      1. princess = the princess because it is a definite word known to us.

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