The Most Dangerous Game and Other Stories of Adventure
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"Readers seeking exotic locales and nonstop pulse-pounding thrills will love this collection of six classic adventure stories"-- Provided by publisher
Connell Richard Boeken
Richard Connell was een van de meest vooraanstaande Amerikaanse korte verhalen-schrijvers van zijn tijd. Zijn verhalen, geroemd om hun meeslepende plots en inzichtelijke exploraties van de menselijke psychologie, sierden regelmatig de pagina's van toonaangevende tijdschriften. Connells talent reikte verder dan korte fictie, blijkend uit zijn succesvolle carrière als journalist en scenarioschrijver, waarvoor hij een Oscarnominatie ontving.
The Most Dangerous Game
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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
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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.