John Merrick, 'The Elephant Man'
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Jan 1, 1980 · The Elephant Man. Christine Sparks. 3.97. 1,796 ratings95 reviews. John Merrick had lived for more than twenty years imprisoned in a body that condemned him to a miserable life in the workhouse and to humiliation as a circus sideshow freak.
Jan 1, 1979 · The Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance is a script for a play, based on the life of John Merrick, a psychically disabled man, with numerous body mutations and defects, that made him look a bit like half-man, and half an elephant.
Anthropologist Ashley Montagu's book, The Elephant Man: A Study in Human Dignity (1971), drew on Treves's book and explored Merrick's character. Montagu reprinted Treves's account alongside various others, such as Carr Gomm's letter to The Times in December 1886 and the report on Merrick's inquest.
Jan 22, 2007 · Here, in this fully revised edition containing new details, are the true and unromantic facts of his life. This is an extraordinary and moving story, set among the brutal realities of the Victorian world, telling of a tragic individual and his survival against overwhelming odds. Read more.
Nov 12, 1986 · The Elephant Man: A Novel Mass Market Paperback – November 12, 1986. by Christine Sparks (Author)
Oct 5, 2011 · The Elephant Man: A Novel. Christine Sparks. Random House Publishing Group, Oct 5, 2011 - Fiction - 288 pages. John Merrick had lived for more than twenty years imprisoned in a body that...
About The Elephant Man. John Merrick had lived for more than twenty years imprisoned in a body that condemned him to a miserable life in the workhouse and to humiliation as a circus sideshow freak. But beneath that tragic exterior, within that enormous and deformed head, thrived the soul of a poet, the heart of a dreamer, the longings of a man.
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