# The Country of the Blind and other Selected Stories

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- Authors: [H.G. Wells](https://www.bookquiver.com/hg-wells)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4193-711-3
- Published: 2007-05-31
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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.