The most dangerous game by richard connell

After falling overboard from a yacht, Sanger Rainsford swims to a nearby island. There General Zaroff, a big-game hunter who knows of Rainsford from published accounts of his hunting snow leopards in Tibet, invites him to dinner.

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The most dangerous game by richard connell

Sailors have a curious dread of the place. I don't know why. Some superstition--". I hope the jaguar guns have come from Purdey's. We should have some good hunting up the Amazon. Great sport, hunting. Who cares how a jaguar feels? The fear of pain and the fear of death. Be a realist. The world is made up of two classes--the hunters and the huntees. Luckily, you and I are hunters. Do you think we've passed that island yet?

SparkNotes Plus. He had achieved a doze when, just as morning began to come, he heard, far off in the jungle, the faint report of a pistol. Rainsford went back to the bed and lay down.

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The most dangerous game by richard connell

On a yacht in the Caribbean, Sanger Rainsford is a hunter famed for his skills, preparing for a hunting trip up the Amazon in South America with his friend Whitney, who tells him about some strange superstitions involving a nearby island. That night, Rainsford hears gunshots and falls into the sea. He swims for the shore, and hears the strange cries of an animal he is unfamiliar with and realises it is being hunted. When he makes it to the shore, he collapses and falls asleep, but once he wakes he realises he is hungry and begins to search for people on the island he has washed up on. What he discovers initially baffles him. There are cartridges left over from the hunt which he heard, but the hunter was using a small gun to hunt a large animal. He knocks at the door of this chateau, and Ivan, a black-bearded giant of a man who cannot speak, opens the door to him. He goes to shoot Rainsford, who is saved when another man, General Zaroff, arrives. Both he and Ivan are Cossacks: Russian and Ukrainian horsemen known for their military skill.

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The general smiled the quiet smile of one who has faced an obstacle and surmounted it with success. What they don't share is the idea that Rainsford should become prey in Zaroff's boredom-induced hunting game on a secluded tropical island. And the stake is not without value, eh? He tried to wrench it back, but the muck sucked viciously at his foot as if it were a giant leech. Fred Shaw. By many methods he tried to put himself to sleep. Half apologetically General Zaroff said: "We do our best to preserve the amenities of civilization here. He need not play that game if he doesn't wish to. They had come from the right, and doggedly he swam in that direction, swimming with slow, deliberate strokes, conserving his strength. Twenty feet below him the sea rumbled and hissed. I think, Mr.

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Rainsford had fought his way through the bush for two hours. Overall, I enjoyed reading it and I liked the idea behind it. Renews March 12, March 5, No other hunting compares with it for an instant. Rainsford remembered the shots. Then Rainsford saw the man's free hand go to his forehead in a military salute, and he saw him click his heels together and stand at attention. Ivan, a burly man with a gun, answers and refuses to help Rainsford until another man, General Zaroff, appears from inside the chateau and invites Rainsford inside. Of course you, in turn, must agree to say nothing of your visit here. Rainsford froze there, every muscle tensed for a spring. It must have been a fairly large animal, too. The free trial period is the first 7 days of your subscription. You are much younger than I am, Mr. Once he thought he heard stealthy steps in the corridor outside his room. It has some really beautiful writing. He nodded toward the corner to where the giant stood, scowling, his thick arms crossed on his hogshead of chest.