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" The Country of the Blind ", a short story by H. G. Wells, is one of the most well-known stories featuring blind characters.

A sighted man finds himself in a country that has been isolated from the rest of the world for centuries, wherein all the inhabitants are blind even as their ancestors had been.

These people are depicted as self-sufficient, having developed their other senses, but they are ultimately closed-minded and insular to the point of xenophobia.

As they themselves have no sight, they wish to deprive the traveler of his own eyes in this allegorical tale of stagnation.