"The Most Dangerous Game", also published as "The Hounds of Zaroff", is a short story by Richard Connell, 1] first published in Collier's on January 19, 1924. 2] 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. 3] The story is inspired by the big-game hunting safaris in Africa and South America that were particularly fashionable among wealthy Americans in the 1920
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