The Country of the Blind (Unabridged) [Unabridged Fiction] - H.G. Wells

By H.G. Wells

Release Date: 2008-03-04

Genre: Fiction

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In this famous fantasy story, a mountain climber falls into a strange and isolated society of non-seeing persons - claiming to have been in existence for 15 generations and cut off from the rest of the world by an earthquake. The interloper decides quickly that "In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king". However, things turn out very differently than he had planned. The experience of being an "other" - a seeing man in a world of blind persons - is the major theme of this story.

The Country of the Blind (Unabridged) [Unabridged Fiction] - H.G. Wells

By H.G. Wells

Release Date: 2008-03-04

Genre: Fiction

(0 ratings)
In this famous fantasy story, a mountain climber falls into a strange and isolated society of non-seeing persons - claiming to have been in existence for 15 generations and cut off from the rest of the world by an earthquake. The interloper decides quickly that "In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king". However, things turn out very differently than he had planned. The experience of being an "other" - a seeing man in a world of blind persons - is the major theme of this story.

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