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Genre/Form: | Biography Literature Biographies |
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Named Person: | Joseph Carey Merrick; Joseph Carey Merrick; Joseph Carey Merrick; Joseph Carey Merrick |
Material Type: | Juvenile audience |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Frederick Drimmer |
ISBN: | 0399212620 9780399212628 |
OCLC Number: | 11599107 |
Description: | 143 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Man Into Animal -- Freak Show -- Medical Mystery -- A Constable Interrupts -- Parade of the Elephants -- Outcast -- Leicester Workhouse -- Easy Street -- The Letter -- Elephant House -- A Lady Comes Calling -- Fit for a King -- Excitement in Whitechapel -- The Kiss -- Christmas and Boxing Day -- The Journey -- The Mirror -- To Sleep Like Other People. |
Responsibility: | Frederick Drimmer. |
Abstract:
Traces the history of Joseph Merrick, called the Elephant Man because of a deformity, from his birth in central England to his death in a London hospital in 1890.
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