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The Elephant Man is a 138-page softcover book whose first edition inspired the movie and the Tony Award-winning play by the same name. This fascinating story, which has touched the hearts of readers throughout the world for over a century, is now complete with the publication of this, the Third Edition. Illustrated with photos and drawings of The Elephant Man.
Contents
"Preface; Discovering 'The Elephant Man'; Sir Frederick Treves, Surgeon; Downtown London, 1884;The Elephant Man, As Told by Sir Frederick Treves; Building on Treves' Story; Life in the London Hospital; The Vindication of Mary Jane Merrick; The Supreme Importance of a Mothers Love; Genes, Environment & Personality Development; Lessons of The Elephant Man; Afterword: On Our Reactions to the Disabled; Appendix: The Autobiography of Joseph Carey Merrick; Mrs. Kendal's Account of Joseph Merrick; Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Multiple Neurofibromatosis; The Nature of The Elephant Man's Disorder; Death of The Elephant Man; References; About the Author."