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The Elephant Man

by Frederick Drimmer · 1985

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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.

Subject
biography
Setting
England
Audience
childrens

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