TRAVELMAN

THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND
In one of H. G. Wells's most brilliant and haunting stories, Nunez, a hapless mountaineer falls several thousand feet down the side of an Andean mountain to find himself in the Country of the Blind, a sealed-off valley, where, for fifteen generations, a strange community of congenitally blind human beings has been thriving in complete ignorance of the outside world. Nunez gleefully reminds himself of an old proverb: "In the Country of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is King," but, to his dismay, things do not happen quite as he had hoped. The ...
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HERE WE ARE / A TELEPHONE CALL
Dorothy Parker is remembered as much today for her sparkling short stories as for her poems and her witty remarks. In Here We Are a newly wedded couple prepares for the first evening of a honeymoon in New York. Both he and she face the stark possibility that marriage may not be quite as jolly as they had each anticipated. In A Telephone Call Parker's satiric wit is focussed on a hapless and frantic girl as she waits impatiently by the telephone praying that her lover will ring. (From the publisher)...
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