The Country of the Blind and Other Stories

The Country of the Blind and Other Stories

Infobox Book
name = The Country of the Blind and Other Stories
title_orig =
translator =


image_caption = First edition cover
author = H. G. Wells
illustrator =
cover_artist =
country = United Kingdom
language = English
series =
subject =
genre = Short story, Science Fiction and Fantasy
publisher = Thomas Nelson and Sons
release_date = 1911
media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 574
isbn =
preceded_by =
followed_by =

"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 but one of the stories ("The Obliterated Man") 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" (not previously published)
*"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 Judgement" ("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.
*1 "The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents" (1895)
*2 "The Plattner Story and Others" (1897)
*3 "Thirty Strange Stories" (1897)
*4 "Tales of Space and Time" (1899)
*5 "Twelve Stories and a Dream" (1903)

External links

* [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/11870 The Country of the Blind and Other Stories] . "Project Gutenberg".
* [http://contento.best.vwh.net/s256.htm List of Stories by H. G. Wells] . "Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections".


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужен реферат?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions — Infobox Book name = The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions title orig = translator = image caption = Dust jacket illustration by Gahan Wilson for The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions author = H. P. Lovecraft illustrator = cover… …   Wikipedia

  • Double Sin and Other Stories —   Dust jacket illustration of the f …   Wikipedia

  • Three Blind Mice and Other Stories — Infobox Book name = Three Blind Mice and Other Stories title orig = translator = image caption = Dust jacket illustration of the first US edition author = Agatha Christie illustrator = cover artist = country = United States language = English… …   Wikipedia

  • The Country of the Blind — Infobox short story | name = The Country of the Blind title orig = translator = author = H. G. Wells country = flag|United Kingdom language = English series = genre = Short story published in = Strand Magazine publisher = media type = Print… …   Wikipedia

  • Dr. Fell, Detective, and Other Stories —   …   Wikipedia

  • The Virgin and the Gypsy — is a short story (or novella) by English author D. H. Lawrence. It was written in 1926 and published posthumously in 1930. Today it is often entitled The Virgin and the Gipsy which can lead to confusion. First and early editions were titled as… …   Wikipedia

  • Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories —   …   Wikipedia

  • The Invisible Man (film) — The Invisible Man Theatrical poster Directed by James Whale Produced by …   Wikipedia

  • The New Accelerator — is a 1901 science fiction short story by H. G. Wells. The story addresses the invention of an elixir that enables an individual to move rapidly through time. The drug has considerable advantages as well as risks, drawing upon a trope present in… …   Wikipedia

  • The Chronic Argonauts — is a short story written by H. G. Wells. First published by the Royal College of Science in 1888, it is the first well developed use of a machine constructed to travel through time (a time machine ) in science fiction, as it predates Wells s more …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”