The Phantom of the Opera

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Harper Collins, Dec 30, 1987 - Fiction - 368 pages
The novel that inspired the Lon Chaney film and the hit musical. "The wildest and most fantastic of tales."--New York Times Book Review.
 

Contents

Prologue
1
Is It the Ghost?
8
The New Margarita
21
The Mysterious Reason
34
Box Five
45
The Enchanted Violin
63
A Visit to Box Five
85
Faust and What Followed
89
The Singular Attitude of a SafetyPin
191
Christine Christine
200
Mme Girys Revelations
207
The SafetyPin Again
221
The Commissary the Viscount and
230
The Viscount and the Persian
238
In the Cellars of the Opera
247
Interesting Vicissitudes
269

The Mysterious Brougham
108
At the Masked Ball
119
Forget the Name of the Mans Voice
132
Above the TrapDoors
140
Apollos Lyre
151
A MasterStroke of the TrapDoor Lover
176
In the TortureChamber
285
The Tortures Begin
294
Barrels Barrels
302
The End of the Ghosts LoveStory
326
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About the author (1987)

Gaston Leroux was a French journalist, short-story writer, and novelist, and is most famous for his acclaimed novel, The Phantom of the Opera. A student of law, Leroux turned to journalism after spending his inheritance on a lavish lifestyle. Over a decade of work as a court reporter and theatre critic for the L’écho de Paris served as inspiration for his series of successful detective novels featuring Joseph Rouletabille, an amateur sleuth, and Leroux’s contributions to the French detective genre are considered as significant as those of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Allan Poe. Leroux died in 1927.

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