The Most Dangerous Game

by Richard Connell

Overview

This short story 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 that were fashionable among wealthy Americans.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788827573808
Publisher:	E-BOOKARAMA
Publication date:	06/11/2024
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	212,949
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Richard Connell (1893-1949) was an American author and journalist who is considered one of the most popular short-story writers of his time. His works appeared in The Saturday Evening Post and Collier's magazine.

Edoardo Ballerini is an Italian-American narrator, actor, and writer who is best known for his role in The Sopranos. He has appeared in over forty films and television series and received numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards for his narration.

Editorial Reviews

Ziggurat Productions employs multiple voices to tell this haunting classic short story about a hunter becoming the hunted. Accomplished big-game hunter Sanger Rainsford is washed ashore on a South American island owned by General Zaroff, a maniacal sportsman whose quarry is the two-legged kind. When Rainsford finds himself the prey of the madman, he must kill or be killed. The readings are quite good, and the story is enhanced by appropriately menacing music. The script sticks fairly close to the original tale, with only minor enhancements and additions, and a shift in the narrative voice. S.E.S. © AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine

OCT/NOV 02 - AudioFile