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The Most Dangerous Game, featured in our Mystery Stories, is much more than a hunting story, where the suspense keeps building until the very end. "`What are the attributes of an ideal quarry?'. And the answer was, of course, `It must have courage, cunning, and, above all, it must be able to reason.' 'But no animal can reason,' objected Rainsford.
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The story features a big-game hunter from New York City who falls from 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.
On a yacht bound for Rio de Janeiro, a passenger named Whitney points out Ship-Trap Island in the distance, a place that sailors dread and avoid. He and his friend Rainsford are big-game hunters bound for a hunting trip in the Amazon River basin. As the yacht sails through the darkness, the two men discuss whether their prey actually feels fear.
Overview. “The Most Dangerous Game” is a 1924 short story by American author Richard Connell, also with “The Hounds of Zaroff” as its title. It tells the story of Sanger Rainsford, a big-game hunter who becomes the prey of a Russian aristocrat named General Zaroff.
Analysis. Sanger Rainsford and his friend Whitney are sailing on a yacht heading to the Amazon to hunt jaguars. It’s a particularly dark night, and Whitney explains to Rainsford the superstition surrounding an ominous place they are passing called Ship-Trap Island. He claims that not even cannibals would live there because it’s such an evil place.
‘The Most Dangerous Game’ is a classic adventure story, first published in 1924. It is now the story for which its author, Richard Connell (1893-1949), is best-remembered, and critics and reviewers have drawn comparisons between ‘The Most Dangerous Game’ and Suzanne Collins’s bestselling Hunger Games series, because both narratives ...
