The Country of the Blind (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: H. G. Wells
- First Published: 1904
- Type of Plot: Fable
- Time of Work: The early 1900's
- Setting: An imaginary valley in Ecuador
- Principal Characters: Núñez, Yacob, Medina-Sarote
- Genres: Fable, Short fiction
- Subjects: Blindness or blind persons, Marriage, Manners or customs, Disabilities or physically challenged persons, Diseases, South America or South Americans, Learning or scholarship, Mountains, Mountaineering, Vision
- Locales: Ecuador
The Story
Long years ago, a valley in Ecuador's Andes was accessible to all. Then came a great landslide that cut the valley off from the outside world. An early settler who chanced to be outside the valley when the earthquake occurred was never able to return. Before he died, he described the place whence he came. A place where it never rained or snowed, it was a virtual utopia until a strange disease rendered everyone blind. Because people then considered sin to be the cause of disease, the settler was chosen to leave the valley to find priests to build a shrine that would...
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