TY - BOOK AU - Beresford,J.D. TI - The Hampdenshire Wonder AV - PR PY - 2016/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Science fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hampdenshire_Wonder; Release date is 2016-09-11; Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.); Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Hampdenshire Wonder" by J. D. Beresford is a science fiction novel published in 1911. It follows Victor Stott, the son of a famous cricket player, who develops from infant into an almost preternaturally clever child prodigy. The boy's extraordinary intelligence comes with subtle physical deformities to accommodate his powerful brain. Set against the backdrop of an English village with an unpleasant local minister, the novel explores the unsettling emergence of superhuman abilities and influenced later works like Olaf Stapledon's "Odd John." (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53028 ER -