The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories

• Author(s): H. G. Wells,
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Pages: 418
• ISBN_10: 1500745340
  ISBN_13: 9781500745349
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Fiction / Science Fiction / Collections & Anthologies , Literary Collections / General ,

Description:... The Country of the Blind and Other Stories is a collection of thirty-three fantasy and science fiction short stories written by the English author H. G. Wells between 1894 and 1909. It was first published by Thomas Nelson and Sons in 1911. All the stories had first been published in various weekly and monthly periodicals. Twenty-seven of the stories had also been previously published in five earlier story collections by Wells.Contents: The jilting of Jane -- The cone -- The stolen bacillus -- The flowering of the strange orchid -- In the Avu Observatory -- Aepyornis Island -- The remarkable case of Davidson's eyes -- The Lord of the Dynamos -- The moth -- The treasure in the forest -- The story of the late Mr. Elvesham -- Under the knife -- The sea raiders -- The obliterated man -- The Plattner story -- The red room -- The purple Pileus -- A slip under the microscope -- The crystal egg -- The star -- The man who could work miracles -- A vision of judgment -- Jimmy Goggles the God -- Miss Winchelsea's heart -- A dream of Armageddon -- The valley of spiders -- The new accelerator -- The truth about Pyecraft -- The magic shop -- The empire of the ants -- The door in the wall -- The country of the blind -- The beautiful suit.