The phantom of the opera - Gaston Leroux

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Title
The phantom of the opera
Author
Gaston Leroux
format
Paperback / softback
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Language
English
UK Publication Date
20121004

Discover the classic Gothic horror novel of haunted cellars, opera, murder and unrequited love that inspired Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical.


Christine is a beautiful young singer at the Paris Opera. She is watched by the Opera's 'phantom' - a mysterious masked figure who terrorises the Opera's management and players. With the Phantom's help, Christine rises to become the Opera's star performer, but when the Phantom demands her heart in return, Christine is torn between gratitude and pity for her strange benefactor, and love for her childhood sweetheart, Raoul.

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Gaston Leroux was born on 6 May 1868 in Paris and after school in Normandy, he returned to Paris to study law. His extreme gambling is well-documented after he squandered the millions he had inherited, narrowly escaping bankruptcy. He worked as a court reporter and theatre critic before landing a job as an international correspondent for Le Matin. During this time Leroux travelled to Russia to experience and report on the Russian Revolution. In 1907 he gave up journalism to become a writer, and quickly found success with Le Mystre de la Chambre Jaune (1908). He became well-known for his popular and acclaimed crime and thriller novels, but Leroux also wrote poetry and short fiction. His most famous work, Le Fantme de l'Opra (The Phantom of the Opera), was inspired by a tour of the cellars at the Paris Opera, and published in 1911. The story has been adapted for film and, most notably, for Andrew Lloyd Webber's long-running musical. Gaston Leroux died on 15 April 1927.

"A Gothic novel of romance, honour and tragedy with a creepy, obsessive underbelly"
Daily Telegraph

"A venerable, much-adapted story of grand, delicate feelings and gothic creepiness"
New York Times

"Mixes horror and romance in equal measure"
Guardian

Type
BOOK
Edition
Reprint
Keyword Index
Opera - France - Paris - Fiction.|Unrequited love - Fiction.|Disfigured persons - Fiction.
Country of Publication
England
Number of Pages
307

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