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The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell

The Most Dangerous Game

Richard Connell

Start Publishing LLC · Print & ebook · March 26, 2014

A Classics pick for readers exploring The Most Dangerous Game.

The ClassicsSuspenseAction & Adventureshort story
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Who it’s for
A reversal of the safari story turns survival into a tense, unsettling game.
Themes
Survival, Hunter becomes the hunted
Genres
Suspense, Action & Adventure, The Classics

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About this book

A big-game hunter from New York is 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.

The Hunter Hunted

A reversal of the safari story turns survival into a tense, unsettling game.

Come here for

  • A sharp inversion of fashionable big-game hunting
  • An isolated-island hunt with the roles reversed

Expect

  • Suspense built around the hunter becoming prey
  • A compact survival story with an edge

Where it sits

Action & Adventure63%
The Classics48%
Suspense32%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Action & Adventure
  • Romance Adventure
  • Suspense
Authors
Richard Connell
Publisher
Start Publishing LLC
Published
March 26, 2014
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Survival · Hunter becomes the hunted
Reading lane
Action & Adventure