{"product_id":"the-country-of-the-blind-and-other-selected-stories","title":"The Country of the Blind and Other Selected Stories","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"0141441984\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-cel-widget=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" data-csa-c-id=\"31rk6u-axnxk5-7br52q-5bemex\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eHerbert George Wells was perhaps best known as the author of such classic works of science fiction as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Time Machine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWar of the Worlds\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. 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