2001年1月1日 · The Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance is a script for a play, based on the life of John Merrick, a psychically disabled man, with numerous body mutations and defects, that made him look a bit like half-man, and half an elephant.

1980年1月1日 · The Elephant Man tells the moving and largely true story of Joseph* Merrick, (1862-1890) born in Leicester, England who suffered from an extremely severe case of neurofibromatosis and/or the result of a disease known as Proteus syndrome. His mother died when he was 11 and when his father remarried a year later, he left school to roll cigars in ...

This book tells the poignant story of John Merrick, a man who faced immense challenges due to his physical deformities. In 19th century London, he transitions from being a sideshow attraction to finding acceptance in society, yet his dreams of normalcy remain elusive.

About The Elephant Man. John 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. But 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—until the kind Dr. Treves gave him the first real home in the London Hospital and the town's most beautiful and esteemed actress...

A horribly deformed young man, a freak attraction in traveling side shows, is found abandoned and helpless and is admitted for observation to Whitechapel, a prestigious London hospital. Under the...

The Elephant Man: A Novel John 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. But 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.