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The Country of the Blind (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)

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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See Also:

• H. G. Wells (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• H. G. Wells (Short Fiction)
• H. G. Wells (Long Fiction)
• H. G. Wells (Dictionary of World Biography)
• Theory of Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)