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| Author | H. G. Wells |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fiction,fantasy |
| Published | 1911 (Thomas Nelson and Sons) |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 574 |
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The Country of the Blind and Other Stories is a collection of thirty-threefantasy and science fictionshort stories written by the English authorH. G. Wells between 1894 and 1909. It was first published byThomas Nelson and Sons in 1911.[1] All the stories had first been published in various weekly and monthlyperiodicals. Twenty-seven of the stories had also been previously published in five earlier story collections by Wells.
The title of this collection refers to one of Wells's best-known short stories, "The Country of the Blind", which is included in this book.
In his introduction to this book, Wells wrote that this collection covers "all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again." He went on to say that except for the two sets of linked stories "A Story of the Stone Age" and "A Story of the Days To Come" in his earlier collection,Tales of Space and Time (1899), "no short story of mine of the slightest merit is excluded from this volume."
These are the short stories contained in this collection showing theperiodicals in which they were first published.
Many of the above stories were previously published in the following story collections by Wells.
The Country of the Blind and Other Stories public domain audiobook atLibriVox