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The Most Dangerous Game is the popular short story originally published in 1924 which was written by Richard Connell. This is the story of a big game hunter who is trapped on an island with a fellow hunter, who is uninterested in hunting stereotypical prey, and instead decides that the only prey worthy of his skills is other humans.
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Grave, classical in form, intimate and earnest.
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- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Richard Connell
- First published
- 1990
- Pages
- 32
- Publisher
- Kessinger Publishing, LLC, Tark Classic Fiction, Independently Published
- Editions
- 260
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9798782324254
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