The Country of the Blind and Other Stories
Author | H. G. Wells |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre | Short story, Science fiction and fantasy |
Published | 1911 (Thomas Nelson and Sons) |
Media type | Print (hardback) |
Pages | 574 |
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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 "
Contents
These are the short stories contained in this collection showing the periodicals in which they were first published.
- "The Jilting of Jane" (
- "The Cone" (Unicorn, 18 September 1895) 2 3
- "The Stolen Bacillus" (
- "The Flowering of the Strange Orchid" (Pall Mall Budget, 2 August 1894) 1
- "In the Avu Observatory" (
- "
- "The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes" (Pall Mall Budget, 28 March 1895) 1
- "
- "The Moth" (
- "The Treasure in the Forest" (
- "The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham" (
- "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 Purple Pileus" (
- "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 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
- "Black and White, May/June 1901) 5
- "The Valley of Spiders" (Pearson's Magazine, March 1903) 5
- "The Strand, December 1901) 5
- "The Strand, April 1903) 5
- "The Magic Shop" (The Strand, June 1903) 5
- "The Strand, December 1905)
- "The Daily Chronicle, 14 July 1906)
- "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