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Title: The Most Dangerous Game

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Title: The Most Dangerous Game Title Record # 96695
Author: Richard Edward Connell
Date: 1924-01-19
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: novelette
Webpages: IMDB, pseudopod.org, Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Synopsis: By chance the big-game hunter Rainsford has been stranded on an island owned by another hunter, General Zaroff. Zaroff reveals that he has grown bored with hunting even the most dangerous animals, and wants to match wits with human prey. Rainsford is to be pitted against him in a desperate effort to survive.
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Other Titles

Variant Titles Translations
Year Title
1924 Most Dangerous Game
1924 The Most Dangerous Game [as by Richard Connell]
Year Language Title
1959Translated by Max Schuchart
Dutch Het gevaarlijkste spel [as by Richard Connell]
1965Translated by an unknown hand
French Les plaisirs de la chasse [as by Richard Connell]
1969Translated by Aníbal Fernandes
Portuguese A caça do General Zaroff [as by Richard Connell]
1974Translated by Hans Maeter.
German Die Großwildjagd des Generals [as by Richard Connell]
1974Translated by Juan Antonio Molina Foix
Spanish La más peligrosa de las cazas [as by Richard E. Connell]
1975Translated by Jos Ras.
French Le plus dangereux des gibiers [as by Richard Connell]
1981 Italian La pericolosa partita [as by Richard Connell]
1982Translated by Jos Ras
French Les chasses du Comte Zaroff [as by Richard Connell]

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Collier's, January 19, 1924 1924-01-19 ed. Editors of Collier's        
unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
mag  
Night in Funland and Other Stories from Literary Cavalcade 1968-02-00 ed. Jerome Brondfield Scholastic Book Services TK1056
$0.75?$: US dollar
238
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
anth Margaret Howlett Checkmark
Night in Funland and Other Stories from Literary Cavalcade 1969-12-00 ed. Jerome Brondfield Scholastic Book Services TK1056
$0.75?$: US dollar
238
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
anth Margaret Howlett Checkmark
Night in Funland and Other Stories from Literary Cavalcade 1970-02-00 ed. Jerome Brondfield Scholastic Book Services TK1056
$0.75?$: US dollar
238
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
anth  
The Ghouls 1971-02-15 ed. Peter Haining W. H. Allen 0-491-00027-8
£2.50?£: UK pound
383
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
The Ghouls 1971-04-08 ed. Peter Haining Stein and Day 0813813650   383
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Mark Abraham  
The Ghouls 1971-06-00 ed. Peter Haining Stein and Day / BCE 3378   382
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Mark Abraham Checkmark
The Ghouls 1994-04-00 ed. Peter Haining Bounty Books 1-85152-373-1
£4.99?£: UK pound
384
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
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