Description:

Sold into captivity, brutally disfigured to become an object of amusement for the English nobility, the child Gwynplaine grows into manhood as a travelling entertainer, in love with the blind girl Dea, who is incapable of comprehending his monstrous appearance. But his true past arises to change his life completely, and open to him a world far uglier than any mere external appearance can display. A searing indictment of social injustice, by a master novelist with few peers at rendering into fictional form political satire and moral outrage.