The Phantom Of The Opera

Gaston Leroux

Apr 2014 · Sold by Harper Collins

About this ebook

At the beginning of her career in the Paris Opera chorus, Christine hears a mysterious and beautiful voice, which she believes to be the song of The Angel of Music. The Voice, however, belongs to Erik, the deformed musical genius who haunts the Opera House. Christine’s harrowing encounters with Erik reveal not only his madness, but also his anguish.

Despite finding little success in print after its 1911 publication, interest in and acclaim for Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera intensified as a result of numerous film and stage adaptations, most notably Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1986 stage adaptation.

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About the author

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.