Download or read book The Most Dangerous Game written by Richard Connell and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2023-02-23 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sanger Rainsford is a big-game hunter, who finds himself washed up on an island owned by the eccentric General Zaroff. Zaroff, a big-game hunter himself, has heard of Rainsford’s abilities with a gun and organises a hunt. However, they’re not after animals – they’re after people. When he protests, Rainsford the hunter becomes Rainsford the hunted. Sharing similarities with "The Hunger Games", starring Jennifer Lawrence, this is the story that created the template for pitting man against man. Born in New York, Richard Connell (1893 – 1949) went on to become an acclaimed author, screenwriter, and journalist. He is best remembered for the gripping novel "The Most Dangerous Game" and for receiving an Oscar nomination for the screenplay "Meet John Doe".
Download or read book The Most Dangerous Game and Other Stories of Adventure written by Connell and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2021-07-14 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers seeking exotic locales and nonstop pulse-pounding thrills will love this collection of six classic adventure stories, including The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell, To Build a Fire by Jack London, The Caballero's Way by O. Henry, and more.
Download or read book The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell Annotated Edition written by Richard Connell and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-23 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Edward Connell Jr. (1893 - 1949) was an American author and journalist, probably best remembered for his short story "The Most Dangerous Game". Connell was one of the most popular American short story writers of his time. He had equal success as a journalist and screenwriter and was nominated for an Academy Award in 1942 for best original story. Widely anthologized and the author's bestknown work. "The Most Dangerous Game" features as its main character a big-game hunter from New York, who becomes shipwrecked on an isolated island in the Caribbean, and is hunted by a Russian aristocrat.
Download or read book The Most Dangerous Game Annotated Edition written by Richard Edward Connell and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-29 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Most Dangerous Game", also published as "The Hounds of Zaroff", is a short 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. The story is inspired by the big-game hunting safaris in Africa and South America that were particularly fashionable among wealthy Americans in the 1920s
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Download or read book The Most Dangerous Game Annotated written by Richard Edward Connell and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-31 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Most Dangerous Game", also published as "The Hounds of Zaroff", is a short story by Richard Connell, first published in Collier's on January 19, 1924. Trumps 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. The story is inspired by the big-game hunting safaris in Africa and South America that were particularly fashionable among wealthy Americans in the 1920s.The story has been adapted numerous times, most notably as the 1932 RKO Pictures film The Most Dangerous Game, starring Joel McCrea and Leslie Banks, and for a 1943 episode of the CBS Radio series Suspense, starring Orson Welles. It has been called the "most popular short story ever written in English." Upon its publication, it won the O. Henry Award.
Download or read book The Most Dangerous Game Annotated written by Richard Edward Connell and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-11 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Most Dangerous Game", also published as "The Hounds of Zaroff", is a short 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. The story is inspired by the big-game hunting safaris in Africa and South America that were particularly fashionable among wealthy Americans in the 1920s
Download or read book The Most Dangerous Game written by Richard Richard Connell and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunter Sanger Rainsford washes up on the shore of an island owned by the wealthy General Zaroff. Rainsford sees evidence of someone hunting large game on the island. Zaroff claims he has been importing game for his hunts. Rainsford soon realizes that Zaroff has been hunting humans for sport. When he refuses to join Zaroff on a hunt, the General turns against him.
Download or read book The Most Dangerous Game written by Gavin Lyall and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Cary is great with a gun and deadpan about danger' Spectator Bill Cary makes a precarious living flying aerial surveys over Lapland. When he's hired by a wealthy American hunter, Frederick Wells Homer, to fly into a prohibited part of Finland near the Soviet border, the job seems shady indeed, and when a major crook wants him to go on the hunt for Tsarist treasure, things get messy. With thugs and the Finnish Secret Service already on his tail, matters get worse when Homer's beautiful sister turns up to search for him, and Cary's fellow bush pilots start getting killed off in a series of suspicious accidents. Cary begins to realise that it may all stem from an incident in his wartime past. The Most Dangerous Game was shortlisted for the British Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award. 'A glorious tale, vivid in character and escapade' Book Week
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Download or read book The Lady Or the Tiger written by Stockton Frank R. and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 ...
Download or read book The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell Annotated written by Richard Connell and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-17 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Edward Connell Jr. (1893 - 1949) was an American author and journalist, probably best remembered for his short story "The Most Dangerous Game". Connell was one of the most popular American short story writers of his time. He had equal success as a journalist and screenwriter and was nominated for an Academy Award in 1942 for best original story. Widely anthologized and the author's best known work. "The Most Dangerous Game" features as its main character a big-game hunter from New York, who becomes shipwrecked on an isolated island in the Caribbean, and is hunted by a Russian aristocrat.
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Download or read book The Lady Or the Tiger and Other Short Stories written by Frank Stockton and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1992-04-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of stories by the nineteenth century author, featuring his most famous tale, "The Lady or the Tiger," which poses a dilemma that was hotly debated for years after its publication.
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