[Gutenberg 175] • The Phantom of the Opera
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- Authors
- Leroux, Gaston
- Tags
- horror , romance , phantom of the opera (fictitious character) -- fiction , classics , horror tales , opera -- fiction , paris (france) -- fiction , french fiction -- translations into english , musical fiction , composers -- fiction
- Date
- 1909-09-23T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.20 MB
- Lang
- en
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Unabridged (100% Original content)
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The Phantom of the Opera is a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux. It was first published as a serialisation in Le Gaulois from September 23, 1909, to January 8, 1910. It was published in volume form in April 1910 by Pierre Lafitte. The novel is partly inspired by historical events at the Paris Opera during the nineteenth century and an apocryphal tale concerning the use of a former ballet pupil's skeleton in Carl Maria von Weber's 1841 production of Der Freischütz. Nowadays, it is overshadowed by the success of its various stage and film adaptations. The most notable of these are the 1925 film depiction featuring Lon Chaney and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical.