The Country of the Blind and Other Stories
By H. G. Wells
Introduction by Neil Gaiman
Edited by Patrick Parrinder
Notes by Andy Sawyer
Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction
About The Country of the Blind and Other Stories
The early short stories of an essential 20th century literary personage
Herbert George Wells was perhaps best known as the author of such classic works of science fiction as The Time Machine and War of the Worlds. But it was in his short stories, written when he was a young man embarking on a literary career, that he first explored the enormous potential of the scientific discoveries of the day. He described his stories as "a miscellany of inventions," yet his enthusiasm for science was tempered by an awareness of its horrifying destructive powers and the threat it could pose to the human race. A consummate storyteller, he made fantastic creatures and machines entirely believable; and, by placing ordinary men and women in extraordinary situations, he explored, with humor, what it means to be alive in a century of rapid scientific progress.
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H.G. Wells was born in Bromley, Kent, in 1866. After an education repeatedly interrupted by his family's financial problems, he eventually found work as a teacher at a succession of schools, where he began to write his first stories. Wells… More about H. G. Wells
Dec 18, 2007 | 464 Pages | ISBN 9780141441986
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