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Author: J.D. Beresford

J.D. Beresford (1873–1947) was an English dramatist, journalist, and author. Besides Goslings (1913), his science fiction novels include The Hampdenshire Wonder (1911), about a super-genius child; and The Riddle of the Tower (1944, with Esme Wynne-Tyson), about a dystopian, hive-like society. His daughter Elisabeth was author of a series of children's books about The Wombles.

THE HAMPDENSHIRE WONDER (18)

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“Ignorance is the means of our intellectual pleasure.”

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THE HAMPDENSHIRE WONDER (17)

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The Wonder did not fall into the pond by accident.

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THE HAMPDENSHIRE WONDER (16)

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I saw that the dim white object was globular.

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THE HAMPDENSHIRE WONDER (15)

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“You figure space as a void in three dimensions.”

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THE HAMPDENSHIRE WONDER (14)

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I have no acquaintance with higher mathematics.

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THE HAMPDENSHIRE WONDER (13)

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“I don’t worry my ’ead about him.”

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THE HAMPDENSHIRE WONDER (12)

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He sat in an enceinte of piled volumes.

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THE HAMPDENSHIRE WONDER (11)

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“His mind is a magnificent, terrible machine.”

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THE HAMPDENSHIRE WONDER (10)

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“I am determined that this infidel child shall go to school.”

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THE HAMPDENSHIRE WONDER (9)

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“So elementary… inchoate… a disjunctive… patchwork”

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THE HAMPDENSHIRE WONDER (8)

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“Books,” he said.

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THE HAMPDENSHIRE WONDER (7)

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“What should I learn out of all them books?”

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THE HAMPDENSHIRE WONDER (6)

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“‘Oo is God?”

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THE HAMPDENSHIRE WONDER (5)

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“Didn’t you have a little of the ‘fifth form’ feeling?”

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THE HAMPDENSHIRE WONDER (4)

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“When ’e first looked at me, I near ’ad a faint.”

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