The Country of the Blind & Other Tales: 33 Titles in One Edition. H. G. Wells
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The Country of the Blind & Other Tales: 33 Titles in One Edition
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ISBN 978-80-272-3580-3
Table of Contents
IV. THE FLOWERING OF THE STRANGE ORCHID
VII. THE REMARKABLE CASE OF DAVIDSON’S EYES
XI. THE STORY OF THE LATE MR. ELVESHAM
XVIII. A SLIP UNDER THE MICROSCOPE
XXI. THE MAN WHO COULD WORK MIRACLES
XXVIII. THE TRUTH ABOUT PYECRAFT
XXXII. THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND
INTRODUCTION
The enterprise of Messrs. T. Nelson & Sons and the friendly accommodation of Messrs. Macmillan render possible this collection in one cover of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the two series of linked incidents that make up the bulk of the book called Tales of Space and Time, no short story of mine of the slightest merit is excluded from this volume. Many of very questionable merit find a place; it is an inclusive and not an exclusive gathering. And the task of selection and revision brings home to me with something of the effect of discovery that I was once an industrious writer of short stories, and that I am no longer anything of the kind. I have not written one now for quite a long time, and in the past five or six years I have made scarcely one a year. The bulk of the fifty or sixty tales from which this present three-and-thirty have been chosen dates from the last century. This edition is more definitive than I supposed when first I arranged for it. In the presence of so conclusive an ebb and cessation an almost obituary manner seems justifiable.
I find it a little difficult to disentangle the causes that have restricted the flow of these inventions. It has happened, I remark, to others as well as to myself, and in spite of the kindliest encouragement to continue from editors and readers. There was a time when life bubbled with short stories; they were always coming to the surface of my mind, and it is no deliberate change of will that has thus restricted my production. It is rather, I think, a diversion of attention to more sustained and more exacting forms.