# The Elephant Man

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- Book: [The Elephant Man](https://www.bookquiver.com/christine-sparks/the-elephant-man) ([The Elephant Man.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/christine-sparks/the-elephant-man.md))
- Authors: [Christine Sparks](https://www.bookquiver.com/christine-sparks)
- Publisher: ballantine_books
- ISBN: 978-03-4534-513-4
- Pages: 288
- Published: 1986-11-12
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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,...