The Country of the Blind is a short story by H.G. Wells first published in the April 1904 issue

The Country of the Blind is one of Wells' best-known short stories, and occupies a prominent place in literature dealing with blindness. Wells later rewrote the story, with an expanded version first published by a private English printing company, the Golden Cockerell, in 1939.

The novel The Country of the Blind The novel is a story about a strange disease that invades the inhabitants of an isolated valley between the mountains, causing people to lose their sight little by little, and each generation inherits it to the next, until a time comes upon them when there is no sight, and every word “sighted” becomes Attached to it are words that describe what the eye sees