The Most Dangerous Game

by Richard Connell

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The Most Dangerous Game

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Language: en

Published in: 1924

Subject(s): Short Fiction - Crime/Mystery - Adventure - Thriller

Copyright: This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50.

"The Most Dangerous Game" features as its main character a big-game hunter from New York, who becomes 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.

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kdog
kdog
on May 10, 2009 at 12:27

This story inspired the Zodiac killer



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