Ergebnis für "Richard Connell" in Klassiker

Survival is the Only Rule. Sanger Rainsford is a master of the kill. He lives by a cold, unwavering creed: the world is comprised of only two classes - the hunters and the huntees. But when he washes ashore on the jagged rocks of Ship-Trap Island, Rainsford is forced to learn a blood-chilling...

"The Most Dangerous Game" wird auch als die "beliebteste Kurzgeschichte, die jemals auf Englisch geschrieben wurde" bezeichnet. Das Buch ist inspiriert von den Großwild-Jagdsafaris in Afrika und Südamerika, die in den 1920er-Jahren unter wohlhabenden Amerikanern besonders in Mode waren. Die Geschichte wurde mehrfach adaptiert und auf die Kinoleinwand gebracht. Der Großwildjäger Sanger Rainsford und sein Freund Whitney reisen für eine Jaguarjagd in den Amazonas-Regenwald.

Richard Edward Connell Jr was born on the 17th October 1893, in Poughkeepsie, New York. During the First World War Connell served in France with the US Army and was the editor of his camp's newspaper. After the war he turned to writing short stories, and eventually wrote over 300 of them for the periodicals and journals of the day, including regular contributions to The Saturday Evening Post and Collier’s. The attention of his audience kept him popular for decades. He is perhaps best remembered for his macabre short story ‘The Most Dangerous Game’, written in 1924.

In a story that heralded in a genre, a world-famous big-game hunter learns firsthand how it feels to be hunted when a deranged Russian millionaire hunts him on his secluded tropical island as The Most Dangerous Game.