Frederick Treves Knihy

In Mile End Road, opposite the London Hospital, there was a line of small shops. Among them was a vacant greengrocer's which was to let. The whole front of the shop, except for the door, was hidden by a hanging sheet of canvas announcing that the Elephant Man was to be seen within and that the price of admission was twopence. Painted on the canvas in primitive colors was a life-size portrait of the Elephant Man.

Through physical deformities which were almost impossible to describe, Joseph Merrick spent much of his life exhibited as a fairground freak until even 19th century sensibilities could take no more. This is the story of a tragic individual and his survival against the odds in Victorian England. schovat popis