TheTrue History of the Elephan

Howells, Michael

ISBN 10: 0749005165 / ISBN 13: 9780749005160

Editore: Allison & Busby, 2007

Good condition ex-library book with usual library markings and stickers. Codice articolo 00103393858

Riassunto:

Joseph Carey Merrick, born in England on August 5, 1862, 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 up at Londons Liverpool Street Station where he was rescued, housed and fed by the distinguished surgeon Frederick Treves. To Treves surprise, he discovered during the course of their friendship that lurking beneath the mass of Merrick's corrupting flesh lived a spirit that was as courageous as it had been tortured, and a nature as gentle and dignified as it had been deprived and tormented.The subject of several books, a Broadway hit, and a film, Joseph Merrick has become part of popular mythology. 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.

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Titolo: TheTrue History of the Elephan
Casa editrice: Allison & Busby
Data di pubblicazione: 2007
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: Good