The Most Dangerous Game and Other Stories of Adventure
- 112pages
- 4 heures de lecture
"Readers seeking exotic locales and nonstop pulse-pounding thrills will love this collection of six classic adventure stories"-- Provided by publisher
Connell Richard Livres
Richard Connell fut l'un des nouvellistes américains les plus renommés de son époque. Ses récits, célébrés pour leurs intrigues captivantes et leurs explorations perspicaces de la psychologie humaine, ont fréquemment paru dans les plus grands magazines contemporains. Le talent de Connell s'étendait au-delà de la nouvelle, comme en témoigne sa carrière réussie de journaliste et de scénariste, qui lui valut une nomination à l'Oscar.
The Most Dangerous Game
- 28pages
- 1 heure de lecture
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
- 150pages
- 6 heures de lecture
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.