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Wells's The Country of the Blind.

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From: The Explicator
Date: 20040922
Author:Thompson, Terry W.

According to Kingsley Amis, "[f]ew writers better deserve to be called original" than H. G. Wells (540). Surely one of the most "original" of the prolific author's short stories is "The Country of the Blind," first published in The Strand Magazine in 1904. (1) Acclaimed by Richard Hauer Costa as Wells's "finest achievement as a writer of short fiction" (36) and by Patrick Parrinder as "one of the finest 'lost race' tales in 20th Century English literature" (71), this dreamlike narrative of a green and halcyon land hidden deep in the Andes represents something of a departure for ...

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