"The Most Dangerous Game", also published as "The Hounds of Zaroff", is a short story by Richard Connell. It was published in Collier's Weekly on January 19, 1924. Widely anthologized, and the author's best-known work, "The Most Dangerous Game" features as its main character a big-game hunter from New York, who falls off a yacht and swims to an isolated island in the Caribbean, and is hunted by a Russian aristocrat.

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  • "The Most Dangerous Game", also published as "The Hounds of Zaroff", is a short story by Richard Connell. It was published in Collier's Weekly on January 19, 1924. Widely anthologized, and the author's best-known work, "The Most Dangerous Game" features as its main character a big-game hunter from New York, who falls off a yacht and swims to 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.
  • Pericolosa partita'(The Most Dangerous Game) è un breve racconto di Richard Connell. Il suo personaggio principale è Zaroff, un grande aristocratico russo, abile cacciatore del Nord America e antagonista del racconto. Egli ha inventato un suo nuovo hobby: la caccia agli umani. Dal racconto la RKO Pictures ha tratto i film The Most Dangerous Game (1932) e il remake A Game of Death (1945). Un altro remake è Run for the Sun (1956) della United Artists. Altri film ispirati alla storia sono Bloodlust! (1961), The Woman Hunt (1973), Turkey Shoot (1982) e Surviving the Game (1994).
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  • The Most Dangerous Game (Gavin Lyall novel)
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  • the film
  • the novel by Gavin Lyall
  • the short story by Richard Connell
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  • "The Most Dangerous Game", also published as "The Hounds of Zaroff", is a short story by Richard Connell. It was published in Collier's Weekly on January 19, 1924. Widely anthologized, and the author's best-known work, "The Most Dangerous Game" features as its main character a big-game hunter from New York, who falls off a yacht and swims to an isolated island in the Caribbean, and is hunted by a Russian aristocrat.
  • Pericolosa partita'(The Most Dangerous Game) è un breve racconto di Richard Connell. Il suo personaggio principale è Zaroff, un grande aristocratico russo, abile cacciatore del Nord America e antagonista del racconto. Egli ha inventato un suo nuovo hobby: la caccia agli umani. Dal racconto la RKO Pictures ha tratto i film The Most Dangerous Game (1932) e il remake A Game of Death (1945). Un altro remake è Run for the Sun (1956) della United Artists.
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  • The Most Dangerous Game
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