The Most Dangerous Game Richard Connell's Original Masterpiece

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. "The Most Dangerous Game" is Richard Connell's best known story and has spawned many imitations and a number of film adaptations.