The Elephant Man by Christine Sparks PAPERBACK 9780345345134

The Elephant Man\nby Christine Sparks\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 6\u20137 working days.\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Christine Sparks\nTitle: The Elephant Man\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Biography: general\nPublisher: Random House Publishing Group\nPublication year: 1986\nISBN-13: 9780345345134\nISBN-10: 0345345134\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nJohn 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. \n\nBut 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. Merrick was doomed to suffer forever\u2014until the kind Dr. Treves gave him the first real .