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Richard Connell

The Most Dangerous Game

“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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  • nilabghafari00har citeretfor 9 måneder siden
    chest.
    "You don't mean—" cried Rainsford.
    "My dear fellow," said the general, "have I not told you I always mean what I say about hunting? This
  • nilabghafari00har citeretfor 9 måneder siden
    give him three hours' start. I am to follow, armed only with a pistol of the smallest caliber and range. If my quarry eludes me for three whole days, he wins the game. If I find him"—the general smiled—"he loses."
  • nilabghafari00har citeretfor 9 måneder siden
    . "Oh, yes," he said, casually, as if in answer to a question, "I have electricity. We try to be civilized here."
    "Civilized? And you shoot down men?"

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