The Most Dangerous Game

by Scott Parker (Compiler), Richard Connell

Overview

"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 hunting safaris in Africa and South America that were fashionable among wealthy Americans in the 1920s.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940150743632
Publisher:	Scott Parker
Publication date:	09/22/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Richard Edward Connell was born on October 17, 1893 in Poughkeepsie, NY, to Richard Edward Connell Sr. and Marrie Miller Connell. His father worked as an editor and reporter for the local paper before beginning his political career. His father�s connections at the paper later proved useful for Connell, as by the age of 18 he secured a job as an editor. Connell later attended Georgetown and, after the death of his father, Harvard. He served in World War I, and during his service he wrote and edited the camp newspaper. Upon his return from the war, he married Louise Herrick Fox in 1919. Connell�s stories were published in both the Saturday Evening Post and Collier�s Weekly. He died in Beverly Hills, CA at the age of 56.

Connell�s stories won him much acclaim. He won the O. Henry Memorial Prize twice for his short stories �A Friend of Napoleon� and �The Most Dangerous Game.� He was also nominated for an Academy Award for best original story in 1942 for the film �Meet John Doe.�
Some of his most notable works include: �Centenarian� (1916), �The Most Dangerous Game� (1924), �Heart of a Sloganeer� (1929), �Cross-Eyed South-Paw� (1929), �Black Chrysanthemums� (1927), �Brother Orchid� (1938), The Mad Lover (1927), Murder at Sea (1929), and Playboy (1936).