The Most Dangerous Game and Other Stories of Adventure
- 112 pages
- 4 hours of reading
"Readers seeking exotic locales and nonstop pulse-pounding thrills will love this collection of six classic adventure stories"-- Provided by publisher
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Richard Connell was one of the most prominent American short story writers of his era. His narratives, celebrated for their gripping plots and insightful explorations of human psychology, frequently graced the pages of leading contemporary magazines. Connell's talent extended beyond short fiction, as evidenced by his successful career as a journalist and screenwriter, which earned him an Academy Award nomination.
- 2021
- 2020
"The Most Dangerous Game" is a story by Richard Connell, first published in Collier's on January 19, 1924. The story features a big-game hunter from New York City who falls off a yacht and swims to what seems to be an abandoned and isolated island in the Caribbean, where he is hunted by a Russian aristocrat.
- 2018
The Earthbound Parent
- 150 pages
- 6 hours of reading
Richard A. Conn, Jr. demonstrates why all parents who value science and reason can help stop the centuries-old practice of religious indoctrination and offers advice on how to encourage children to discover the world and their place in it for themselves. Only by teaching them that we are in this world together and have a limited time to live can we truly enable them to flourish and build a peaceful world--not just for their generation but for the future.
- 2007
The Most Dangerous Game
- 28 pages
- 1 hour of reading
The most dangerous game is a tense story pitting man against man and the hunted against the hunter. Sanger Rainsford falls from a yacht on route to Rio de Janeiro to hunt jaguars. He manages to swim to a nearby island, but there the hunter becomes the hunted.