Richard Edward Connell

Ein Raub, ein Mord. Ein raffinierter Plan. Und eine Wahrheit, die niemand erwartet. Was geschieht, wenn ein Verbrechen nicht nur begangen, sondern einem anderen gestohlen wird?

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....

The hunter becomes the hunted. You listened to The Most Dangerous Game in high school and college, but you've never experienced Richard Connell's classic short story like this before....

A mysterious island, shrouded in fear, evil, and darkness. Here the amoral General Zaroff hunts....

Our ‘fight of flight’ response is something hardwired into the primitive part of our brain. In this volume people struggle valiantly to survive and to exist no matter the extent of the threat they face....

“The Most Dangerous Game” takes us where the hunter becomes the hunted....

Richard Edward Connell Jr was born on the 17th October 1893, in Poughkeepsie, New York. He is perhaps best remembered for his macabre short story ‘The Most Dangerous Game’, written in 1924....

A boating accident leaves famed hunter Sanger Rainsford of New York City alone...

A big-game hunter from New York falls off a yacht and swims to an isolated island in the Caribbean, where he is hunted by a Cossack aristocrat....

At first glance, 'The Most Dangerous Game’ by Richard Connell, ‘Paul’s Case’ by Willa Cather, and ‘The Beast in the Jungle’ by Henry James have very little in common. .....

A reverse of normal hunting of man hunting an animal. This is a man hunting a man for sport. A rich aristocrat hunts a shipwrecked man. This short novel has grown more popular over time....