A new, beautifully laid-out edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1851 classic.
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.
First published in 1924, this suspenseful tale “has inspired serial killers, films and stirred controversy in schools.
After falling overboard from a yacht, Sanger Rainsford swims to a nearby island.
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 story is an inversion of the big-game hunting safaris in Africa and South America that were fashionable among wealthy Americans in the 1920s.Connell was one of the most popular American short story writers of his time.
Rainsford is a big-game hunter (think elephants and tigers) who basically couldn't give a hoot about his prey.
Since the freezingpoint is thirtytwo above zero, it meant that one hundred and seven degrees of frost obtained. The dog did not know anything about thermometers. Possibly in its brain there was no sharp consciousness of a condition of ...
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 ...
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.
"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 ...