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The True History of the Elephant Man
The True History of the Elephant Man
Author: Michael Howell, Peter Ford
Joseph Carey Merrick, born in Leicester on August 5th, 1852, is better known as The Elephant Man. Through horrible physical deformities which were almost impossible to describe, he spent much of his life exhibited as a fairground freak until even nineteenth-century sensibilities could take no more. Hounded, persecuted, and starving, he ended u...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780749005160
ISBN-10: 0749005165
Publication Date: 8/15/2001
Pages: 213
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Publisher: Allison Busby
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Interesting insight into the life of this tortured individual.


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