Author: Stockton Frank R.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539402350
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Called the most famous riddle mystery of all time, this very short story poses a dilemma. A man is sentenced to an unusual punishment for having a romance with a king's beloved daughter. Taken to the public arena, he is faced with two doors, behind one of which is a hungry tiger that will devour him. Behind the other is a beautiful lady-in-waiting, whom he will have to marry if he finds her. While the crowd waits anxiously for his decision, he sees the princess among the spectators, who points him to the door on the right with a slight movement of her hand. The lover starts to open the door and ...
The Lady, Or the Tiger?
Author: Stockton Frank R.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539402350
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Called the most famous riddle mystery of all time, this very short story poses a dilemma. A man is sentenced to an unusual punishment for having a romance with a king's beloved daughter. Taken to the public arena, he is faced with two doors, behind one of which is a hungry tiger that will devour him. Behind the other is a beautiful lady-in-waiting, whom he will have to marry if he finds her. While the crowd waits anxiously for his decision, he sees the princess among the spectators, who points him to the door on the right with a slight movement of her hand. The lover starts to open the door and ...
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539402350
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Called the most famous riddle mystery of all time, this very short story poses a dilemma. A man is sentenced to an unusual punishment for having a romance with a king's beloved daughter. Taken to the public arena, he is faced with two doors, behind one of which is a hungry tiger that will devour him. Behind the other is a beautiful lady-in-waiting, whom he will have to marry if he finds her. While the crowd waits anxiously for his decision, he sees the princess among the spectators, who points him to the door on the right with a slight movement of her hand. The lover starts to open the door and ...
It's a Tiger!
Author: David LaRochelle
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1452121850
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Kids and parents alike will rejoice in this lively read-aloud picture book, as the main character runs into (and away from) a tiger over and over again as the plot gets sillier and sillier. Perfect for acting out while reading, It's a Tiger! offers just the right amount of excitement without being too scary, and a sweet ending with a bit of a twist.
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1452121850
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Kids and parents alike will rejoice in this lively read-aloud picture book, as the main character runs into (and away from) a tiger over and over again as the plot gets sillier and sillier. Perfect for acting out while reading, It's a Tiger! offers just the right amount of excitement without being too scary, and a sweet ending with a bit of a twist.
Indian Literature
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indic literature (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indic literature (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
Beware! Shadows in the Night #3
Author: Lin Oliver
Publisher: Penguin Workshop
ISBN: 0448480905
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
When the fantastic frame takes Tiger and Luna to the diner depicted in Edward Hopper's painting, Nighthawks, they explore the streets and subways of 1942 New York City.
Publisher: Penguin Workshop
ISBN: 0448480905
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
When the fantastic frame takes Tiger and Luna to the diner depicted in Edward Hopper's painting, Nighthawks, they explore the streets and subways of 1942 New York City.
Seagull Theatre Quarterly
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The Shadow of the Hummingbird
Author: Athol Fugard
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559367954
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
"The greatest active playwright in the English-speaking world."—Time "If there is a more urgent and indispensable playwright in world theater than South Africa's Athol Fugard, I don't know who it could be."—Newsweek "Athol Fugard can say more with a single line than most playwrights convey in an entire script."—Variety Legendary theatre artist Athol Fugard returns to the stage for the first time in fifteen years in this, his latest work. The Shadow of the Hummingbird tells the story of an ailing man in his eighties and the afternoon spent with his ten year-old grandson. In a charming meditation on the beauty and transience of the world around us, Fugard continues to mine the depths of the human spirit with profound empathy and heart. The text of the play includes an introductory Prelude by Paula Fourie with extracts from Fugard’s unpublished notebooks. Athol Fugard has been working in the theater as a playwright, director, and actor for more than fifty years. In 2011, he received a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, and he was the inaugural Humanitas Visiting Professor of Drama at Oxford University. His plays include Blood Knot, Boesman and Lena, Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act, Sizwe Banzi Is Dead, 'Master Harold' . . . and the Boys, The Road to Mecca, My Children! My Africa! and The Blue Iris.
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559367954
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
"The greatest active playwright in the English-speaking world."—Time "If there is a more urgent and indispensable playwright in world theater than South Africa's Athol Fugard, I don't know who it could be."—Newsweek "Athol Fugard can say more with a single line than most playwrights convey in an entire script."—Variety Legendary theatre artist Athol Fugard returns to the stage for the first time in fifteen years in this, his latest work. The Shadow of the Hummingbird tells the story of an ailing man in his eighties and the afternoon spent with his ten year-old grandson. In a charming meditation on the beauty and transience of the world around us, Fugard continues to mine the depths of the human spirit with profound empathy and heart. The text of the play includes an introductory Prelude by Paula Fourie with extracts from Fugard’s unpublished notebooks. Athol Fugard has been working in the theater as a playwright, director, and actor for more than fifty years. In 2011, he received a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, and he was the inaugural Humanitas Visiting Professor of Drama at Oxford University. His plays include Blood Knot, Boesman and Lena, Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act, Sizwe Banzi Is Dead, 'Master Harold' . . . and the Boys, The Road to Mecca, My Children! My Africa! and The Blue Iris.
The Oxford Companion to Indian Theatre
Author: Ananda Lal
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
This Encyclopedic Volume Is The First Of Its Kind In Any Language Covering All Of Indian Theatre. Lavishly Illustrated, With Some Rare Photographs From Archival Collections.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
This Encyclopedic Volume Is The First Of Its Kind In Any Language Covering All Of Indian Theatre. Lavishly Illustrated, With Some Rare Photographs From Archival Collections.
Tigers In The Snow
Author: Peter Matthiessen
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780865475960
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The story of the threatened Siberian tiger as it struggles to exist in the little-populated Russian Far East.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780865475960
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The story of the threatened Siberian tiger as it struggles to exist in the little-populated Russian Far East.
The Other Plays
Author: George Ryga
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
From one of Canada's best-known playwrights, George Ryga, comes this anthology of plays that often criticize issues of Canadian culture.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
From one of Canada's best-known playwrights, George Ryga, comes this anthology of plays that often criticize issues of Canadian culture.
Tiger, Tiger
Author: Dee Lillegard
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
A bored young boy uses a magic feather to form a tiger, and then must use the feather to save his village when the tiger gets hungry.
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
A bored young boy uses a magic feather to form a tiger, and then must use the feather to save his village when the tiger gets hungry.