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Title: |
The Elephant Man |
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| By (author): |
Ashley Montagu |
| ISBN10-13: |
0925417416 : 9780925417411 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
215x140mm |
| Pages: |
137 |
| Weight: |
.214 Kg. |
| Published: |
Acadian House Publishing - January 1971 |
| List Price: |
17.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon
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| Subjects: |
Biography: general : Anthropology |
| 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. |
| Table of 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 Mother’s 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."
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“The truth of the Elephant Man – Upon seeing the movie "The Elephant Man" I was immediately possessed by an overwhelming urge to know how much of the movie was true, and how much was false. I was pleasantly surprised to find that this book answered every question I had, and more. Ashley Montagu has researched the subject with such a tenacity that it truly boggles my mind that he was able to collect all this information
. To this day, I cannot fathom Joseph Merrick; by all accounts, after everything that happened to him, he should have been bitter and spiteful to the core, yet he was instead a shining example of courage, dignity, and the human spirit. This book illuminates that undying spirit in a way that is hard to describe. I would recommend this book to everybody.” -Reviewed in the U.S. on April 6, 2002, By Amazon customer “helpdeskdan”
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“Beauty inside the beast – A tragic and heroic documentary of a person’s ability to prevail with grace over the most horrendous birth defect imaginable. A great read, I learned a lot.” -Reviewed in the U.S. on Sept. 23, 2016, By Amazon customer “Ediucci”
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