Name: The Most Dangerous Game
Rating: 3.735849056603774 (53 reviews)
ISBN: 9798603110929

Richard Connell.

"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.The story is an inversion of the big-game hunting safaris in Africa and South America that were fashionable among wealthy Americans in the 1920s

( Annotated ) By Richard Connell.

The Most Dangerous Game

Richard O'Connell

Tim Pendry

A 1924 short story about a White Russian aristocrat (not so different from the likes of von Ungern Sternberg) called Zaroff (it was also published as the 'Hounds of Zaroff') whose post-Bolshevik aristocratic boredom results in him hunting men rather than tigers and other big game. Needless to say, the hero who thwarts him is an upstanding example of the American East Coast 'aristocracy' with a healthy democratic respect for human life. Although the ending is somewhat prefunctory, it has its virtues as an adventure-thriller. It is most notable for having inspired a number of films and it has been called 'the most popular short story ever written' (in the US) and one can see why - not for its literary quality but simply the fascination of its theme, the rawness of the struggle for existence in a nation of individualists. Perhaps no story better encapsulates a core male anxiety about differential power alongside fantasies about how such differentials might be out-manoevred through the employment of superior wits, all encased in a moral tale about good and evil in which good must triumph.

Can't say this is the best period of human history to be reading this.

MaiAbdelhamed

“‘Off there to the right—somewhere—is a large island,’ said Whitney.
‘It's rather a mystery ?
‘What island is it?’ Rainsford asked.
‘The old charts call it “Ship-Trap Island,” Whitney replied. ‘A suggestive name, isn't it? Sailors have a curious dread of the place. I don't know why. Some superstition’

awesome !

Richard Connell

From one of America’s most popular short story writers and an Academy Award nominee: the O. Henry Award–winning tale that inspired the movie The Hunt. A subject of mysterious rumors and superstition, the deserted Caribbean Island was shrouded in an air of peril. To Sanger Rainsford, who fell off a yacht and washed up on its shores, the abandoned isle was a welcome paradise. But unknown to the big-game hunter, a predator lurked in its lush jungles—one more dangerous than any he had ever encountered: a human. First published in 1924, this suspenseful tale “has inspired serial killers, films and stirred controversy in schools. A century on, the story continues to thrill” (The Telegraph). “[A] tense, relentless story of man-against-man adventure, in which the hunter Sanger Rainsford learns, at the hands of General Zaroff, what it means to be hunted.” —Criterion

Jeremy Anderberg

In one of the most popular short stories of all time, Connell imagines a big-game hunter who’s become bored with his prey. So, on his private island, he stocks a different kind of game—the most cunning and dangerous animal of all. That’s right: General Zaroff hunts people.

He’ll give them a head start and toy around for a bit before finally dispatching them. But then Sanger Rainsford, a big-game hunter himself, washes ashore after accidentally falling off his boat. At first, him and Zaroff hit it off. The General reveals his secret, though, and asks his guest to hunt with him. Sanger has different plans, but the General isn’t so keen on letting him get off the island and spill the beans about what’s really going on.

And the hunt ensues.

I enjoyed this classic story and truly didn’t know which direction the ending would take until I got there. If you need a quick-hit Halloween read, “The Most Dangerous Game” is perfect; then you can watch any number of movies which are either loosely or directly based on Connell’s plot.

Isabel Gómez 

Read it for English class and it was… something

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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 1920.

The Most Dangerous Game ( Annotated ) By Richard Connell.

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