‘In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.’ Or is he? In H. G. Wells’ famous tale a stranded mountaineer encounters an isolated society in which his apparent advantage proves less than valuable. There are over thirty H. G. Wells short stories in this collection, including 
The Star, a gripping tale about a massive celestial object hurtling toward the Earth, as well as 
The New Accelerator, The Remarkable Case of Davidson’s Eyes, Under the Knife and 
The Queer Story of Brownlow’s Newspaper.