The Most Dangerous Game

A hunter from New York who falls off a yacht and swims to an isolated island

This app contains text and audio ebook of The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell with a powerful reader.

"The Most Dangerous Game", also published as "The Hounds of Zaroff", is a short 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 story is inspired by the big-game hunting safaris in Africa and South America that were particularly fashionable among wealthy Americans in the 1920s.

The story has been adapted numerous times, but most notably for the 1932 RKO Pictures film The Most Dangerous Game, starring Joel McCrea and Leslie Banks, and for a 1943 episode of the CBS Radio series Suspense, starring Orson Welles.

[About Richard Connell]

Richard Edward Connell Jr. (October 17, 1893 – November 22, 1949) was an American author and journalist. He is best remembered for his short story "The Most Dangerous Game" (1924). Connell was one of the most popular American short story writers of his time, and his stories were published in The Saturday Evening Post and Collier's magazines. He had equal success as a journalist and screenwriter, and was nominated for an Academy Award during 1942 for best original story for the movie Meet John Doe.

[App Features]

1. Text to Speech: Sync text rendering with audio playback. Four speeds options.

2. In-App Dictionary and Wikipedia Search functions

3. Custom Fonts, Text Size, Reading Mode(Vertical/Horizontal), and Theme(Day mode/Night mode)

4. Add Highlights with different Style, and also includes List/Edit/Delete functions

5. Support both Portrait and Landscape screens

6. With "Reading Time Left / Pages Left" information for each chapter