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The Hampdenshire Wonder

by J. D. Beresford

A professional cricketer wishes for an extraordinary son, and gets one: a child with an enormous head and a mind that frightens the village. A journalist tells the story. It is one of the first novels about a child born beyond his species, published in 1911.

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Reading time
About 3 hr 55 min
Where to find it
On the Almost Unread shelves
Edition
Project Gutenberg, eBook #53028. In the public domain in the United States.

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