The Country of the Blind and Other Stories
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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 |
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.[1] 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.
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.
Introduction
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."
Contents
These are the short stories contained in this collection showing the periodicals in which they were first published.
- "The Jilting of Jane" (Pall Mall Budget, 12 July 1894) 2 3
- "The Cone" (Unicorn, 18 September 1895) 2 3
- "The Stolen Bacillus" (Pall Mall Budget, 21 June 1894) 1 3
- "The Flowering of the Strange Orchid" (Pall Mall Budget, 2 August 1894) 1
- "In the Avu Observatory" (Pall Mall Budget, 9 August 1894) 1 3
- "Æpyornis Island" (Pall Mall Budget, 27 December 1894) 1 3
- "The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes" (Pall Mall Budget, 28 March 1895) 1
- "The Lord of the Dynamos" (Pall Mall Budget, 6 September 1894) 1 3
- "The Moth" (Pall Mall Gazette, 28 March 1895) 1 3
- "The Treasure in the Forest" (Pall Mall Budget, 23 August 1894) 1 3
- "The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham" (The Idler, May 1896) 2 3
- "Under the Knife" (The New Review, January 1896) 2
- "The Sea Raiders" (The Weekly Sun Literary Supplement, 6 December 1896) 2 3
- "The Obliterated Man" (New Budget, 15 August 1895 as "The Sad Story of a Dramatic Critic") 2 3
- "The Plattner Story" (The New Review, April 1896) 2 3
- "The Red Room" (The Idler, March 1896) 2 3
- "The Purple Pileus" (Black and White, December 1896) 2 3
- "A Slip Under the Microscope" (The Yellow Book, January 1896) 2 3
- "The Crystal Egg" (The New Review, May 1897) 4
- "The Star" (The Graphic, December 1897) 4
- "The Man Who Could Work Miracles" (The Illustrated London News, July 1898) 4
- "A Vision of Judgment" (Butterfly, September 1899)
- "Jimmy Goggles the God" (The Graphic, December 1898) 5
- "Miss Winchelsea's Heart" (The Queen, October 1898) 5
- "A Dream of Armageddon" (Black and White, May/June 1901) 5
- "The Valley of Spiders" (Pearson's Magazine, March 1903) 5
- "The New Accelerator" (The Strand, December 1901) 5
- "The Truth About Pyecraft" (The Strand, April 1903) 5
- "The Magic Shop" (The Strand, June 1903) 5
- "The Empire of the Ants" (The Strand, December 1905)
- "The Door in the Wall" (The Daily Chronicle, 14 July 1906)
- "The Country of the Blind" (The Strand, April 1904)
- "The Beautiful Suit" (Colliers, 10 April 1909)
Previous collections
Many of the above stories were previously published in the following story collections by Wells.
- [2] The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents (1895)
- [3] The Plattner Story and Others (1897)
- [4] Thirty Strange Stories (1897)
- [5] Tales of Space and Time (1899)
- [6] Twelve Stories and a Dream (1903)
References
External links
- The complete short fiction of H. G. Wells at Standard Ebooks
- The Country of the Blind and Other Stories. Project Gutenberg.
The Country of the Blind and Other Stories public domain audiobook at LibriVox
- List of Stories by H. G. Wells. Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections.
- The Country of the Blind and Other Stories title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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- Apropos of Dolores (1938)
- The Brothers (1938)
- The Holy Terror (1939)
- Babes in the Darkling Wood (1940)
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- You Can't Be Too Careful (1941)
- Anticipations
- Certain Personal Matters
- Crux Ansata
- The Discovery of the Future
- An Englishman Looks at the World
- Experiment in Autobiography
- The Fate of Man
- First and Last Things
- Floor Games
- The Future in America
- God the Invisible King
- In the Fourth Year
- Little Wars
- Mankind in the Making
- Mind at the End of Its Tether
- Mr. Belloc Objects to "The Outline of History"
- The New America
- The New World Order
- New Worlds for Old
- The Open Conspiracy
- The Outline of History
- Russia in the Shadows
- The Science of Life
- A Short History of the World
- The Story of a Great Schoolmaster
- This Misery of Boots
- Travels of a Republican Radical in Search of Hot Water
- War and the Future
- The Way the World Is Going
- The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind
- World Brain
- A Year of Prophesying
- The Country of the Blind and Other Stories
- The Plattner Story and Others
- Select Conversations with an Uncle
- The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents
- Tales of Space and Time
- Twelve Stories and a Dream
- "Æpyornis Island"
- "The Argonauts of the Air"
- "The Beautiful Suit"
- "The Chronic Argonauts"
- "The Cone"
- "The Country of the Blind"
- "The Crystal Egg"
- "A Deal in Ostriches"
- "The Diamond Maker"
- "The Door in the Wall"
- "A Dream of Armageddon"
- "The Empire of the Ants"
- "In the Abyss"
- "The Land Ironclads"
- "Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation"
- "The Lord of the Dynamos"
- "The Man Who Could Work Miracles"
- "The New Accelerator"
- "The Pearl of Love"
- "The Plattner Story"
- "The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper"
- "The Red Room"
- "The Sea Raiders"
- "The Star"
- "The Stolen Body"
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- "A Story of the Stone Age"
- "Triumphs of a Taxidermist"
- "The Truth About Pyecraft"
- "A Vision of Judgment"
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- G. P. Wells
- Anthony West (son)
- Joseph Wells (father)
- Simon Wells (great-grandson)
- H. G. Wells Society
- Lunar crater
- Time After Time (1979 film)