By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University)
‘The Country of the Blind’ is one of H. G. Wells’s finest short stories, published in The Strand magazine in 1904 and then collected in Wells’s short-story collection The Country of the Blind and Other Stories in 1911. It belongs to his early phase, when – during the ten or so years following the publication of his first book, The Time Machine, in 1895 – he produced the majority of his best work.