Richard Connell 
The Most Dangerous Game [EPUB ebook] 

First published in 1924,  ’The Most Dangerous Game’, also published as
’The Hounds of Zaroff’, is a short story by American writer Richard Connell.
’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 that were fashionable among wealthy Americans.
This short story has been adapted numerous times.