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"Carefully,' he cried, with a finger in his eye." – illustration by Claude Allin Shepperson from "The Country of the Blind", published in The Strand Magazine, April 1904. While attempting to climb the unconquered crest of Parascotopetl (a fictitious mountain in Ecuador), a mountaineer named Nuñez slips and falls down the far side of the mountain. At the end of his descent, down a snow-slope ...
The Country of the Blind and Other Stories is a collection of thirty-three fantasy and science fiction short stories written by the English author H. G. Wells between 1894 and 1909. It was first published by Thomas Nelson and Sons in 1911. [1] All the stories had first been published in various weekly and monthly periodicals. Twenty-seven of ...
The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight is a 2023 memoir by Andrew Leland. Leland has retinitis pigmentosa, which means that although he grew up sighted, but as a teenager, he began losing his vision. At the time of the memoir, Leland's vision is described as though he is seeing through a narrow tube.
The Country of the Blind and Other Stories (1947), collection of 3 short stories and 1 novelette: "The Country of the Blind" (novelette), "The Door in the Wall", "The Truth About Pyecraft", "A Deal in Ostriches" 28 Science Fiction Stories of H. G. Wells (1952), collection of 2 novels, 22 short stories and 4 novelettes/novellas:
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a list of fictional countries from published works of fiction (books, films, television series, games, etc.). Fictional works describe all the countries in the following list as located somewhere on the surface of the Earth as ...
JetPunk is an online trivia and quizzing website. The service offers a variety of quizzes in different topics, such as geography, history, science, literature, and music. [2] [3] The site offers quizzes in a variety of languages, including but not limited to: English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, German, Finnish, Portuguese, and Polish. [4]
Love Is Blind is casting for its future seasons in Denver, the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul and Washington D.C. Here are the questions on the casting application asks.
Country of the Blind Quite Ugly One Morning is Christopher Brookmyre 's first novel , and it introduces Jack Parlabane, the writer's most used character. It was published to popular and critical acclaim, winning the inaugural Critics' First Blood Award for the best first crime novel of the year.