Download or read book The Phantom of the Opera 4 Short Stories by Gaston LeRoux Fantasy and Horror Classics written by Gaston LeRoux and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of France's most influential detective fiction authors, Gatson Leroux's most chilling and tragic tales of gothic horror are collected in this volume, including the masterful The Phantom of the Opera. When a Parisian opera house is taken over by new managers, they ignore the previous owners’ desperate warnings of ghostly happenings on stage. The incredibly talented soloist Christine Daae is closely haunted by the Phantom ghost as he coaches her to sing. As romance blossoms between Christine and a charming Viscount, jealousy brews within the Phantom and it’s not long before tragedy strikes. Fantasy and Horror Classics presents this new edition of Gaston Leroux's prolific work, the perfect read for fans of dark mystery.
Download or read book The Phantom of the Opera Special Illustrated Movie Memorabilia Edition written by Gaston Leroux and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-08 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This may well be the ultimate edition of that classic horror tale, "The Phantom of the Opera" by Gaston Leroux. Here you'll meet mad Erik, the "ghost" of the Paris Opera House. Within these pages are the accounts of his maniacal exploits and his mad obsession for the beautiful young opera singer, Christine Daae. But far more than that, it is a story of unrequited love, madness, and murder. It was also the basis for one of the most beloved horror films of all time, Universal Studio's silent classic, "The Phantom of the Opera," made all the way back in 1925. In this special illustrated edition you get not only the famed novel by Gaston Leroux, but also the original interior illustrations by Andre Castaigne, as well as an image gallery containing reproductions of many of the memorable movie posters from the various filmed versions of this blood-curdling classic.
Download or read book Phantom of the Opera written by Gaston Leroux and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gaston Leroux's classic horror tale of the Paris Opera house brings readers the story of the Phantom of the Opera. When the Christine Daae began at the Opera house, she had little talent. When the Phantom fell in love with her, he began to give her singing lessons that turned her into a star. The lessons had a price, however. Learn what the price was in the Calico Illustrated Classics adaptation of Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera.
Download or read book The Phantom of the Opera written by Gaston Leroux and published by . This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Phantom of the Opera, a half-crazed musician hiding in the labyrinth of the famous Paris Opera House and creating a number of strange and mysterious events to further the career of a beautiful young singer, is today regarded as one of the most famous of all horror stories: widely mentioned in the same breath as Frankenstein and Dracula. Yet the fame of this novel is based almost entirely on the various film versions, while the original book has been largely ignored and is rarely in print. An Accelerated Reader® Title.
Download or read book The Phantom of the Opera written by Gaston Leroux and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leroux's classic Gothic melodrama, here freshly presented in a vivid new translation, with informative introduction and notes. The original novel behind Andrew Lloyd Webber's famous musical, The Phantom of the Opera tells of the masked Phantom whose obsessive love for Christine Daaé sets in chain a series of terrifying events.
Download or read book The Phantom of the Opera written by Gaston Leroux and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2004-04-22 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romanforlægget til musicalen "Phantom of the opera" foregår i Pariseroperaen i 1911, hvor Fantomet, et deformt og mystisk væsen, der lever i kældrene under operaen, forelsker sig i en ung sangerinde og iscenesætter gruopvækkende og overnaturlige begivenheder for at vinde hende
Download or read book The Phantom of the Opera written by Gaston Leroux and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Phantom of the Opera, a half-crazed musician hiding in the labyrinth of the famous Paris Opera House and creating a number of strange and mysterious events to further the career of a beautiful young singer, is today regarded as one of the most famous of all horror stories: widely mentioned in the same breath as Frankenstein and Dracula. Yet the fame of this novel is based almost entirely on the various film versions, while the original book has been largely ignored and is rarely in print. An Accelerated Reader® Title
Download or read book The Phantom of the Opera Annotated written by Gaston Leroux and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-04 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a man named Erik, an eccentric, physically deformed genius who terrorizes the Opera Garnier in Paris. He builds his home beneath it and takes the love of his life, a beautiful soprano, under his...
Download or read book The Phantom of the Opera written by Gaston Leroux and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-02 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is and excellent book for individuals who are going to overcome horror.
Download or read book The Essential Phantom of the Opera written by Gaston Leroux and published by iBooks. This book was released on 2004 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a comprehensive, fully annotated edition about the classic 1911 horror novel about a demented musician who haunts the nineteenth-century Paris Opera House.
Download or read book The Phantom of the Opera written by Alexander Louis Teixeira de Mattos and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-12 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Phantom of the Opera is a Gothic novel by Gaston Leroux. It was first published in volume form in 1910.It has been successfully adapted into various stage and film adaptations, most.The story starts with mysterious events: In 1890s Paris, the Palais Garnier is believed to be haunted by an entity known as the Phantom of the Opera. One day, the stagehand, Joseph Bouquet, is found hanged, presumably by the Phantom. At the same time, Christine Daaé, a young soprano, has been tutored by what she believes to be the Angel of Music, sent by her deceased father. The story is a romantic drama with a flair action. It is a tale of a lonely man that has never in his life known love. When he found someone he might love, he became obsessive, possessive and jealous.
Download or read book The Phantom of the Opera written by Gaston Leroux and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-12-24 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos plus a "bonus chapter" called "THE PARIS OPERA HOUSE" Full Original English Translation The Phantom of the Opera (French: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra) 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 Hector Berlioz'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. PLOT SUMMARY Opera singer Christine triumphs at the gala on the night of the old managers' retirement. Her old childhood friend, Raoul, hears her sing and recalls his love for Christine. At this time there are rumors of a phantom living at the Opera and he makes himself known to the managers through letters and malevolent acts. Some time after the gala, the Paris Opera performs Faust, with the prima donna Carlotta playing the lead, against the Phantom's wishes. During the performance Carlotta loses her voice and the grand chandelier plummets into the audience. Christine is kidnapped by the phantom, and taken to his home in the cellars of the Opera and he reveals his true identity to her simply as Erik, though not his real name. He plans to keep her there for a few days, hoping she will come to love him. But she causes Erik to change his plans when she unmasks him and, to the horror of both, beholds his eyeless, lipless face which resembles a skull dried up by the centuries and covered in yellowed dead flesh. Fearing that she will leave him, he decides to keep her with him forever, but when Christine requests release after two weeks, he agrees on condition that she wear his ring and be faithful to him. On the roof of the opera house, Christine tells Raoul that Erik abducted her. Raoul promises to take Christine away to a place where Erik can never find her. Raoul tells Christine he shall act on his promise the next day, to which Christine agrees. She, however, has pity for Erik and will not go until she has sung a song for him one last time. Neither is aware that Erik has been listening to their conversation and that he has become extremely jealous. The following night, Erik kidnaps Christine during a production of Faust and tries to force Christine to marry him. He states that if she refuses, he will use explosives (which he has planted in the cellars) to destroy the entire opera house. Christine refuses, until she realizes that Erik learned of Raoul's attempt to rescue her and has trapped Raoul in a hot torture chamber (along with the Persian, an old acquaintance of Erik who was going to help Raoul). To save them and the people above, Christine agrees to marry Erik. Erik initially tries to drown Raoul, using the water which would have been used to douse the explosives. But Christine begs and offers to be his "living bride", promising him not to kill herself after becoming his bride, as she had both contemplated and attempted earlier in the novel. Erik eventually rescues Raoul from his torture chamber. When Erik is alone with Christine, he lifts his mask to kiss her on her forehead, and is given a kiss back. Erik reveals that he has never received a kiss (not even from his own mother) nor has been allowed to give one and is overcome with emotion.
Download or read book The Phantom of the Opera written by Gaston Leroux and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-02 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in French as a serial in 1909, The Phantom of the Opera is a riveting story that revolves around the young, Swedish Christine Daa�. Her father, a famous musician, dies, and she is raised in the Paris Opera House with his dying promise of a protective angel of music to guide her. After a time at the opera house, she begins hearing a voice, who eventually teaches her how to sing beautifully. All goes well until Christine's childhood friend Raoul comes to visit his parents, who are patrons of the opera, and he sees Christine when she begins successfully singing on the stage. The voice, who is the deformed, murderous 'ghost' of the opera house named Erik, however, grows violent in his terrible jealousy, until Christine suddenly disappears. The phantom is in love, but it can only spell disaster. Leroux's work, with characters ranging from the spoiled prima donna Carlotta to the mysterious Persian from Erik's past, has been immortalized by memorable adaptations. Despite this, it remains a remarkable piece of Gothic horror literature in and of itself, deeper and darker than any version that follows. About Gaston Leroux : Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux was a French journalist and author of detective fiction. In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fant�me de l'Op�ra, 1910), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, such as the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical. It was also the basis of the 1990 novel Phantom by Susan Kay. Leroux went to school in Normandy and studied law in Paris, graduating in 1889. He inherited millions of francs and lived wildly until he nearly reached bankruptcy. Then in 1890, he began working as a court reporter and theater critic for L'�cho de Paris. His most important journalism came when he began working as an international correspondent for the Paris newspaper Le Matin. In 1905 he was present at and covered the Russian Revolution. Another case he was present at involved the investigation and deep coverage of an opera house in Paris, later to become a ballet house. The basement consisted of a cell that held prisoners in the Paris Commune, which were the rulers of Paris through much of the Franco-Prussian war. " Excellent, marvelous, phantasmagorical (ha-ha!) PERFECTION. This is a true House of Horrors, perhaps the best one ever orchestrated (discounting EAPoe). Yes, EVER. The prose is so simple, so readable, that the barest of essentials are there, in all their power and glory: the haunted house, the victim/lover, the victimizer/lover, the clandestine meetings, the haunted past, the switch-over of protagonists, the uncertainty caused by an elegant overflow of optical illusions, the Victorian conventions all intended to spook the hell out of a reader totally in awe of the way a classic story can be so expertly conveyed. Both this and "Dracula" are revolutionary in the uberentertaining way in which the plot is given to us: through letters and witness accounts. Yes, the only way to be frightened is to have the monster in the backdrop, a perpetual threat that's under the velvet curtain.
Download or read book The Phantom of the Opera written by Gaston Leroux and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-11 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition of the managers, or a product of the absurd and impressionable brains of the young ladies of the ballet, their mothers, the box-keepers, the cloak-room attendants or the concierge. Yes, he existed in flesh and blood, although he assumed the complete appearance of a real phantom; that is to say, of a spectral shade." Gaston Leroux (May 6, 168-April 15 1927) was a French journalist and author famous for his writing of The Phantom of the Opera. Destined to adaption on stage and screen, the novel began as a newspaper serialization in Le Gaulois from 23 September 1909, to 8 January 1910. This translation is from the first english, American publication in 1911. This translation is by Alexander Teixeiros de Mattos, from this first English edition.
Download or read book The Phantom of the Opera Special Edition written by Gaston Leroux and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opera singer Christine triumphs at the gala on the night of the old managers' retirement. Her old childhood friend, Raoul, hears her sing and recalls his love for Christine. At this time, there are rumors of a phantom living at the Opera and he makes himself known to the managers through letters and malevolent acts. Some time after the gala, the Paris Opera performs Faust, with the prima donna Carlotta playing the lead, against the Phantom's wishes. During the performance, Carlotta loses her voice and the grand chandelier plummets into the audience. Christine is kidnapped by the phantom and is taken to his home in the cellars of the Opera where he identifies himself as Erik. He plans to keep her there for a few days, hoping she will come to love him. But she causes Erik to change his plans when she unmasks him and, to the horror of both, beholds his noseless, lipless, sunken-eyed face which resembles a skull dried up by the centuries, covered in yellowed dead flesh. Fearing that she will leave him, he decides to keep her with him forever, but when Christine requests release after two weeks, he agrees on condition that she wear his ring and be faithful to him.
Download or read book The Phantom of the Opera written by Gaston Leroux and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2002-12-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1910, the mystery novelist Gaston Leroux, working from scraps of history, theatrical lore, and his own fertile imagination, created a masterpiece in Le fantôme de l’opéra, the story of a disfigured composer who lives in the labyrinthine depths of the Paris Opera. After the breathtaking debut of Christine Daaé, the whispers of an Opera ghost seem to become reality as the young singer vanishes. As the Phantom strikes again and again, targeting foes from a jealous diva to a romantic rival, Leroux spins a thriller of obsession and violence with, at its center, a tormented murderer who awakens our deepest fears and sympathies. The inspiration for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s long-running musical, Leroux’s novel is still more riveting than anything Broadway could produce.
Download or read book The Phantom of the Opera written by Gaston Leroux and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Phantom of the Opera" is a story inspired by historical events at the Paris Opera during the nineteenth century. Opera singer Christine triumphs at the gala on the night of the old managers' retirement. Her old childhood friend, Raoul, hears her sing and recalls his love for Christine. At this time, there are rumours of a phantom living at the Opera and he makes himself known to the managers through letters and malevolent acts. Sometime after the gala, the Paris Opera performs Faust, with the prima donna Carlotta playing the lead, against the Phantom's wishes. During the performance, Carlotta loses her voice and the grand chandelier plummets into the audience... Gaston Leroux (1868-1927) was a French journalist and author of detective fiction. In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, 1910), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name.