The Phantom of the Opera

The Phantom of the Opera

by Gaston Leroux
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Publication Date: 25/04/2020

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When I began to ransack the archives of the National Academy of Music I


was at once struck by the surprising coincidences between the phenomena


ascribed to the "ghost" and the most extraordinary and fantastic


tragedy that ever excited the Paris upper classes; and I soon conceived


the idea that this tragedy might reasonably be explained by the


phenomena in question. The events do not date more than thirty years


back; and it would not be difficult to find at the present day, in the


foyer of the ballet, old men of the highest respectability, men upon


whose word one could absolutely rely, who would remember as though they


happened yesterday the mysterious and dramatic conditions that attended


the kidnapping of Christine Daae, the disappearance of the Vicomte de


Chagny and the death of his elder brother, Count Philippe, whose body


was found on the bank of the lake that exists in the lower cellars of


the Opera on the Rue-Scribe side. But none of those witnesses had


until that day thought that there was any reason for connecting the


more or less legendary figure of the Opera ghost with that terrible


story.

ISBN:
1230003847664
1230003847664
Category:
Fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
25-04-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Prel
Gaston Leroux

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 Mystore 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 FantPme de l'OpUra (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.

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