Title: The Tiger's Skin
Title Record # 1091756
Author: Lord Dunsany
Date: 1931-06-20
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Language: English
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Author: Lord Dunsany
Date: 1931-06-20
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Language: English
Note: First published in The New Yorker, June 20, 1931.
Synopsis: Per The New Yorker: "Tells about a man who came into a store and ordered a special billiard table to order--seven feet by eleven and half made for him. He said he wanted it to put a tiger skin on it. He went to India, but never came back for the table. A tiger had eaten him. The table was sold to some one that had a large house."
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