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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
In 1888 seventeen-year-old Evelyn Fallow, herself disfigured by the phosphorus in the match factory where she worked, has been hired as a maid to Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man--but when the Jack the Ripper murders begin she and Merrick find themselves haunted by the ghosts of the slain women, and Evelyn is caught up in the mystery of Jack's identity.
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When the London surgeon Frederick Treves meets the freak-show performer John Merrick, who has severe skeletal and soft tissue deformities, he assumes that he must be intellectually disabled as well. As the two men spend more time together, though, Merrick reveals the intelligence, gentle nature, and profound sense of dignity that lie beneath his shocking appearance, and he and Treves develop a friendship.
11) The elephant man
Author
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
A novel based on the life of a nineteenth-century Englishman called the elephant man who suffered from Neurofibromatosis, a rare disease. He was condemned to a miserable life in a workhouse until a kind doctor gave him his first real home.
13) The Elephant Man
Author
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
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.
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