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The Most Dangerous Game and Others (Translated & Annotated) English-Korean
A collection of some of the finest stories of Adventure:
In ALONE IN SHARK WATERS a sailor finds himself abandoned in the middle of an ocean infested with man-eating sharks-his only weapon a harpoon...and comes out unharmed.
In THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME a professional hunter finds out what it feels like to be hunted as a wild animal- for he is the prey?
In TO BUILD A FIRE a trapper fights desperately against stark fear in the cruel Arctic night...
In LEININGEN VERSUS THE ANTS a settler battles for his very life against a teeming horde of millions of deadly ants...
These are only a few of the thrilling stories you'll read in this fascinating book.
In ALONE IN SHARK WATERS a sailor finds himself abandoned in the middle of an ocean infested with man-eating sharks-his only weapon a harpoon...and comes out unharmed.
In THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME a professional hunter finds out what it feels like to be hunted as a wild animal- for he is the prey?
In TO BUILD A FIRE a trapper fights desperately against stark fear in the cruel Arctic night...
In LEININGEN VERSUS THE ANTS a settler battles for his very life against a teeming horde of millions of deadly ants...
These are only a few of the thrilling stories you'll read in this fascinating book.
117 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 13, 2011
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Richard Connell
117 books106 followersRichard Edward Connell, Jr. was an American author and journalist, best known for his short story "The Most Dangerous Game." Connell was one of the best-known American short story writers of his time and his stories appeared in the Saturday Evening Post and Collier's Weekly. Connell had equal success as a journalist and screenwriter. He was nominated for an Academy Award in 1942 for best original story for the film Meet John Doe.
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June 7, 2024
I read this book over several times as a kid — at least my favorite stories from it. My paperback copy was old when I got it, and finally fell apart from multiple readings.
A couple of these tales are still well known — Richard Connell’s story of the hunter becoming the hunted, (The Most Dangerous Game) and Jack London’s To Build a Fire, his story of a man and his dog desperately trying to survive the frigid cold and snow of the Yukon being the most famous.
The less well remembered stories are just as heart-poundingly exciting. Leiningen vs the Ants is a man against nature tale, where a colonial rancher in Brazil uses his wits and stubbornness to protect his ranch against an elemental force — a voracious army of ants, ten miles long and two miles wide. (This was the only story from Carl Stephenson written in English.) Also, there is High Air, a dramatic tale of sand hogs (compressed air workers who dug tunnels under the river) desperately fighting to survive as their tunnel starts to collapse. Borden Chase, its author, was a sand hog himself before his writing career took off.
There are other stories in this fine collection, but these are the ones that have stayed with me for nearly half a century. Note that there is more than one collection going under the name of The Most Dangerous Game And Other Stories of Adventure, so, unless you have the edition I’m reviewing here (Berkley Publishing Corp. 1957) you may not find all these stories in the contents.
A couple of these tales are still well known — Richard Connell’s story of the hunter becoming the hunted, (The Most Dangerous Game) and Jack London’s To Build a Fire, his story of a man and his dog desperately trying to survive the frigid cold and snow of the Yukon being the most famous.
The less well remembered stories are just as heart-poundingly exciting. Leiningen vs the Ants is a man against nature tale, where a colonial rancher in Brazil uses his wits and stubbornness to protect his ranch against an elemental force — a voracious army of ants, ten miles long and two miles wide. (This was the only story from Carl Stephenson written in English.) Also, there is High Air, a dramatic tale of sand hogs (compressed air workers who dug tunnels under the river) desperately fighting to survive as their tunnel starts to collapse. Borden Chase, its author, was a sand hog himself before his writing career took off.
There are other stories in this fine collection, but these are the ones that have stayed with me for nearly half a century. Note that there is more than one collection going under the name of The Most Dangerous Game And Other Stories of Adventure, so, unless you have the edition I’m reviewing here (Berkley Publishing Corp. 1957) you may not find all these stories in the contents.
March 23, 2023
Fascinated by how much story Richard Connell told in so few pages.
To build a fire is probably my favorite story here, absolutely haunting. Caballero's way was very enjoyable, and so were the other stories, except for The man who would be king, which was very hard to follow and much too long.
To build a fire is probably my favorite story here, absolutely haunting. Caballero's way was very enjoyable, and so were the other stories, except for The man who would be king, which was very hard to follow and much too long.
January 14, 2010
When I saw this book at an area thrift store, I just couldn't resist the pulpy cover art, not to mention the fact that there were some great stories within. Some I had read before, like Kipling's "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi," but others were gems just waiting to be discovered: Twain's "Journalism in Tennessee" and Kruse's "Alone in Shark Waters," among others. Altogether an awesome collection (and who can resist that cover!).
July 8, 2014
An assigned text for sixth grade, these stories are engrossing. I remember many of them vividly to this day. recommended for any who thinks fiction has gotten stale, or who is reluctant to read.
May 26, 2022
Below I have rated each of the six short stories within this collection on the basis of my own unique likert scale lmao
- The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell: Four Successful Burmese Tiger Pits (4⭐️)
- To Build a Fire by Jack London: Three Frost-bitten Appendages (3⭐️)
- The Caballero’s Way by O. Henry: Two Very Vague Yeehaws (2⭐️)
- The Seed from the Sepulchre by Clark Ashton Smith: Gold of El Dorado (5⭐️)
- Alone in Shark Waters by John Kruse: Sunburnt and Delirious (2⭐️)
- The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling: A Blundering Dead King (1⭐️)
- The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell: Four Successful Burmese Tiger Pits (4⭐️)
- To Build a Fire by Jack London: Three Frost-bitten Appendages (3⭐️)
- The Caballero’s Way by O. Henry: Two Very Vague Yeehaws (2⭐️)
- The Seed from the Sepulchre by Clark Ashton Smith: Gold of El Dorado (5⭐️)
- Alone in Shark Waters by John Kruse: Sunburnt and Delirious (2⭐️)
- The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling: A Blundering Dead King (1⭐️)
May 1, 2022
Classic works spoiled by terrible narration
January 31, 2017
Audiobook. DNF. The first story was good but couldn't get into the next 2 and the narrator's voice was so annoyingly robotic and irritating that I couldn't make myself continue the last hour or so of the book.
November 14, 2017
My oldest daughter, who is a reluctant reader, read "The Most Dangerous Game" in one sitting. She could not put it down.
August 22, 2021
"The Most Dangerous Game" I first read in possibly the 6th grade in a Reading Class in school. It has remained one of my all time favorite short stories. Rainsford, a big game hunter is washed up on shore of an island known for causing shipwrecks and finds that another big game hunter, a Russian nobleman who has survived the Russian Revolution, has set up his own game reserve to hunt what he feels is the most challenging beast 0f all. 5 stars for the story although I did not care for the narrative or acting style of the narrator, William Coon.
"Paul's Case" by Willa Cather was an analysis of a very narcissistic and depressed young man, infatuated with the arts, and who feels that money is the key to happiness. It ends tragically. 3 Stars for this story.
Finally, "The Beast in the Jungle" by Henry James which observes a young man who wastes his life waiting for some incredible event to happen only to find out that it has been right in front of him the whole time. 3 Stars
"Paul's Case" by Willa Cather was an analysis of a very narcissistic and depressed young man, infatuated with the arts, and who feels that money is the key to happiness. It ends tragically. 3 Stars for this story.
Finally, "The Beast in the Jungle" by Henry James which observes a young man who wastes his life waiting for some incredible event to happen only to find out that it has been right in front of him the whole time. 3 Stars
August 20, 2024
2/2.5⭐️
I really love The Most Dangerous Game and have read it a few times now. So this time I wanted to listen to it on audiobook and this was my only option on the Libby app. I wish it was read by a better narrator. This narrator was very monotone and didn’t have any emotion behind his voice. But I still love the story so it didn’t bother me too much until he got to narrating the rest of the short stories. I was so uninterested. I might as well have just DNF’d the rest because I did not comprehend the rest of the short stories’ contents. They’ll be well forgotten.
I really love The Most Dangerous Game and have read it a few times now. So this time I wanted to listen to it on audiobook and this was my only option on the Libby app. I wish it was read by a better narrator. This narrator was very monotone and didn’t have any emotion behind his voice. But I still love the story so it didn’t bother me too much until he got to narrating the rest of the short stories. I was so uninterested. I might as well have just DNF’d the rest because I did not comprehend the rest of the short stories’ contents. They’ll be well forgotten.
February 10, 2022
Solid collection of manly adventures. Dangerous Game started the manhunting for sport genre. It ends too abruptly but lots of movies to flesh it out. Build a Fire was nice and dark. O Henry was great. The Seed was Lovecraft in the jungle. Shark Waters was cool and to the point. But The Man Who Would be King has to be the highlight here, and I barely understood it. Some kind of fever dream about freemasons taking over Afghanistan -- amazing.
December 16, 2021
I really enjoyed the first two stories. I had read The Most Dangerous Game when in high school. Paul's Case was new to me, but I enjoyed its significance. The last story felt a bit long and drawn out to me and not very interesting, though.
January 7, 2018
I once heard the title story read on the radio. I bought this book with an accompanying collection of exciting stories and have read it to my kids. Highly recommended.
December 30, 2022
Read:
The Most Dangerous Game. July 22. 3/5.
The Most Dangerous Game. July 22. 3/5.
January 5, 2023
The Most Dangerous Game is the best of this collection. The others were...meh or perhaps just above me.
January 30, 2024
My rating is for The Most Dangeous Game. The other stories did not hold my interest.
April 10, 2025
Some were good, some just meh.
December 18, 2014
Some stories I liked, some were ok.
I think my favorite thing about reading this was the story "Leiningen Versus the Ants" by Carl Stephenson. I had never read it before, but it was very familiar and immediately reminded me of MacGyver (I remembered seeing a MacGyver episode of this story). So my favorite thing wasn't the story itself, but the MacGyver connection.
I think my favorite thing about reading this was the story "Leiningen Versus the Ants" by Carl Stephenson. I had never read it before, but it was very familiar and immediately reminded me of MacGyver (I remembered seeing a MacGyver episode of this story). So my favorite thing wasn't the story itself, but the MacGyver connection.
June 17, 2012
Love this old book of short stories. I read it once a year to remind myself what it is like to be 12 years old again.
September 12, 2012
This book had some exciting moments. I don't recall specific details but I remember enjoying reading this book.
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