Language: English
Published in: 1924
Categorie(s): Fiction, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Detective, Short Stories, Thrillers
Word count: 7,952 words (≈ 32 minutes)
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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Sun, 09 Jan 2011 02:14:08 +0100
This was my favorite short story in high school. It's great!
Sun, 10 May 2009 12:27:59 +0200
This story inspired the Zodiac killer