The Most Dangerous Game and Other Stories of Adventure
- 112pagine
- 4 ore di lettura
"Readers seeking exotic locales and nonstop pulse-pounding thrills will love this collection of six classic adventure stories"-- Provided by publisher
Connell Richard Libri
Richard Connell fu uno dei più noti scrittori di racconti americani del suo tempo. Le sue narrazioni, celebrate per le trame avvincenti e le penetranti esplorazioni della psicologia umana, apparvero frequentemente sulle pagine delle principali riviste dell'epoca. Il talento di Connell si estese oltre la narrativa breve, come dimostra la sua carriera di successo come giornalista e sceneggiatore, che gli valse una nomination all'Oscar.
The Most Dangerous Game
- 28pagine
- 1 ora di lettura
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.
"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.
The Earthbound Parent
- 150pagine
- 6 ore di lettura
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.