Travel to Frank Stockton's contemporary world in a production of the short story “The Lady, or the Tiger?”
Frank Stockton's story “The Lady and the Tiger?”, about a barbaric princess who must decide the fate of her lover, takes place in an imagined contemporary setting in this 1969 video, a production of Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Questions and answers about English writer George Orwell.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.And how do you really pronounce Telemachus?Media Editor: Kira Helm
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Learn about essential elements of the novel—including mood, motivation, characterization, and style—with editor and anthologist Clifton Fadiman and actors from London's Old Vic theater company. This is a 1962 production of Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.Learn about the life and career of poet Phillis Wheatley.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Ever attended a poetry reading in an arena?
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Alice Walker published The Color Purple in 1982. With it, she became the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.On January 1, 1818, a small London publisher printed 500 copies of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus on the cheapest paper available. That was only the beginning.
