"The Most Dangerous Game", a short story by Richard Connell, was first published in Collier's in 1924 and has since been reprinted and adapted to film several times.
The protagonist of the story, Sanger Rainsford, is an American army veteran and renowned big game hunter who is sailing to Brazil to hunt jaguars. As his yacht passes near Ship-Trap Island, he falls overboard accidentally and swims to shore. There he finds a mansion inhabited by the evil Russian Cossack General Zaroff and his deaf-mute servant and torturer Ivan. Zaroff has become bored by hunting animals and now lures ships to his island and captures and hunts shipwrecked sailors. When Rainsford refuses to join in the sport of hunting humans, he becomes one of the hunted.
Rainsford is given three days in which he must elude Zaroff and his hounds; if he survives, he will be set free. The bulk of the story consists of a series of stratagems Rainsford uses to elude Zaroff. Eventually, Rainsford jumps in the sea, swims back to the house, and ambushes and kills Zaroff in Zaroff's bedroom.
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