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| the phantom of the opera book: The Phantom of the Opera Gaston Leroux, 2004 .0000000000A skeleton in dinner dress is wreaking havoc among singers and staff at the Paris Opera House and when new owners take over the terror escalates. Who is the mysterious figures stalking the stage at night? How can he be everywhere at once and leave locked rooms at will? What is his connection to the beautiful young musician Christine? Stage and screen adaptations of The Phantom of the Opera have maintained the book's popularity, but the novel outdoes them all in Gothic tension and horror.With an Afterword by Peter Harness. |
| the phantom of the opera book: The Phantom of the Opera Gaston Leroux, 2009-05-01 Christine is brought up by her itinerant musician father, whose death she mourns endlessly. She achieves a singing position in the Paris Opera line, where a mysterious voice teaches her to unleash her musical potential. The voice belongs to Erik, a deformed musical genius who lives in the opera house. As Christine's singing career takes off, her childhood friend Raoul begins to court her, and he and Erik fight jealously for Christine's hand. |
| the phantom of the opera book: The Phantom of the Opera Gaston Leroux, Lisa Mullarkey, 2010-09 Under the Paris Opera House lives a disfigured musical genius who uses music to win the love of a beautiful opera singer. |
| the phantom of the opera book: The Phantom of the Opera Amaury, 2016-03-08 Meg explores the Paris Opera and stumbles on the Phantom of the Opera who is heartbroken because he loves Christine, an opera singer who is about to marry her fiancé. |
| the phantom of the opera book: The Phantom of Manhattan Frederick Forsyth, 2000-12-15 A sequel to Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera in which the disfigured Phantom goes to America. He builds the world's greatest opera house, hoping to lure his love, the opera diva who rejected him in Paris. By the author of The Day of the Jackal. |
| the phantom of the opera book: The Phantom of the Opera - Official Graphic Novel Cavan Scott, Andrew Lloyd Webber, 2022-01-11 From the original libretto of Andrew Lloyd Webber's world-famous, multi-award-winning musical that has been playing continuously around the world for over 33 years comes this fully authorized graphic novel adaptation. In 1881 the cast and crew of a new production, Hannibal, are terrorized by the Phantom of the Opera, a mysterious, hideously disfigured man who lives beneath the Paris Opera House. Hopelessly in love and obsessed with one of the chorus singers, the Phantom will stop at nothing to make her the star of the show, even if that means murder. |
| the phantom of the opera book: Phantom Susan Kay, 2006-03 Powerful, moving tour de force, says Publishers Weekly. . . . adds new depth to the (original story) . . . Haunting and unforgettable. A sensual and poetic exploration of a man's internal conflict between good and evil and of a search for love amidst darkness and despair. |
| the phantom of the opera book: The Phantom of the Opera Gaston Leroux, 2015-04-01 Read the book that inspired the musical The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux is a gothic novel that inspired the Andrey Lloyd Webber Musical. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This eBook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes |
| the phantom of the opera book: Muppets Meet the Classics: the Phantom of the Opera Gaston Leroux, Erik Forrest Jackson, 2017 Leroux's classic tale of love, intrigue, and jealousy at the Paris Opera House is reimagined with the cast of the Muppets. Readers can join Kermit, Miss Piggy, Uncle Deadly, and the other Muppets as they bring this gripping tale to life in their own hilarious way. |
| the phantom of the opera book: The Phantom of the Opera Varga Tomi, 2020 The Phantom Of The Opera, the iconic gothic romance, is retold with all the spectacle its legend demands in this devoted graphic novel adaptation that marries stunning artwork with Gaston Leroux's haunting prose. Everyone has heard the whispered tales of the phantom who lives beneath the opera house, the mysterious trickster behind all the little mishaps and lost things. But no one has ever seen the monster . . . until now. When the promise of blossoming love lures him out from his intricately constructed hideaways in the labyrinthine building's walls and cellars, a hideously disfigured artist trains the lovely Christine to be the opera's next star for a steep price. Does she choose her newfound success or her beloved Count Raoul? This doomed love triangle threatens to combust when a tragic death, a series of betrayals, and increasingly dangerous accidents cast the players of The Palais Garnier into a heart-wrenching horror story that will echo through the ages--provided by publisher. |
| the phantom of the opera book: The Phantom of the Opera Gaston Leroux, 2012-03-08 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. |
| the phantom of the opera book: The Phantom of the Opera , 1992-02 (Instrumental Folio). Nine songs from the Andrew Lloyd Webber masterpiece: All I Ask of You * Angel of Music * Masquerade * The Music of the Night * The Phantom of the Opera * The Point of No Return * Prima Donna * Think of Me * Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again. |
| the phantom of the opera book: The Phantom of the Opera Gaston Leroux, 1990-01-01 Gaston Leroux is one of the originators of the detective story, and The Phantom of the Opera is his tour de force, as well as being the basis for the hit Broadway musical. A superb suspense story and a dark tale of obsession, The Phantom of the Opera has thrilled and entertained audiences in adaptations throughout the century. This new translation—the first completely modern and Americanized translation—unfurls the full impact of this classic thriller for modern readers. It offers a more complete rendering of the terrifying figure who emerges from the depths of the glorious Paris Opera House to take us into the darkest regions of the human heart. After the breathtaking performance of the lovely Christine Daae and her sudden disappearance, the old legend of the “opera ghost” becomes a horrifying reality as the ghost strikes out with increasing frequency and violence—always with the young singer at the center of his powerful obsession. Leroux has created a masterwork of love and murder—and a tragic figure who awakens our deepest and most forbidden fears. This is the only complete, unabridged modern Americanized translation available. Lowell Bair is the acclaimed translator of such Bantam Classics as Madame Bovary, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and Candide. |
| the phantom of the opera book: The Phantom of the Opera (Annotated) Gaston Leroux, 2019-04 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... |
| the phantom of the opera book: Ghost Dance Christine Pope, 2020-10-18 An angel has returned to Paris. But is it the Angel of Music…or Death? Two years have passed since Christine fled the opera house, put the memories and the horror behind her. And yet, in her dreams, she still hears his voice, feels his moth-light touch on her throat. The rumors involving the legendary Opera Ghost are merely newspaper sensationalism. The Opera Ghost is dead. His tragic life, his epic opera, his obsession with her voice…ended. But with a slow, heart-pounding dread, Christine lets a lie slip from her lips, and heads for Paris. Alone. Because she has to know if Erik is dead. Or if he’s alive…and wreaking his vengeance. |
| the phantom of the opera book: The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde, 2009-10-27 Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. The novel was a succès de scandale and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895. It has lost none of its power to fascinate and disturb. |
| the phantom of the opera book: The Phantom of the Opera Annotated Gaston Leroux, 2021-08-14 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 wing. |
| the phantom of the opera book: The Phantom of the Opera Gaston Leroux, 1993 Raoul seeks to unravel the mystery of the Paris Opera House and rescue the woman he loves from the threat of the phantom of the opera. |
| the phantom of the opera book: The Phantom of the Opera Robert Chauls, Joseph Robinette, Gaston Leroux, 1992 |
| the phantom of the opera book: Phantom Heart Kelly Creagh, 2023-08-22 A steamy YA romance inspired by Gaston Leroux's classic The Phantom of the Opera Seventeen-year-old Stephanie Armand doesn't believe in ghosts or spirits. Despite her six-year-old sister insisting a masked figure is hiding in her closet, and the rumors at school, Stephanie isn't convinced her father's latest renovation project--a crumbling Victorian mansion--houses the soul of a monster. So when the very charming (and paranormal-obsessed) Lucas Cheney takes an interest in both Stephanie and her notorious home, Moldavia, the supernatural and romantic activity escalates to an all-time high. But then there's Erik-- the dashing British boy, seemingly from another era, who's taken up residence in Stephanie's nightly dreams. A boy who may have something to do with the man in the mask, and the strange occurrences taking place at Moldavia. |
| the phantom of the opera book: The Phantom of the Opera Gaston Leroux, Caitlin G. Freeman, 2014-01-25 On September 23, 1909, the Parisian daily newspaper, Le Gaulois, published its first installment of Gaston Leroux's Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (The Phantom of the Opera). This type of serialized publication, in France called a “feuilleton,” was common from the middle of the 19th century through the beginning of the 20th century. Many authors of the day published their novels section by section in newspapers to gain readership and to work out ideas before the publication of the first edition. Between the newspaper printing and the first edition, it was common for chapters to be added, rewritten, or removed as part of the editing process. In the feuilleton of Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, Gaston Leroux wrote a chapter called “L'enveloppe magique” (“The Magic Envelope”). Leroux decided to omit this chapter from his first edition, and so it only appeared in Le Gaulois. Since the feuilleton has never been translated, few people apart from the most dedicated Phantom enthusiasts are familiar with this lost chapter. For the first time, the text of “The Magic Envelope” has been translated into English so that fans of The Phantom of the Opera can read this forgotten gem. This chapter provides explanations for several enigmas that have puzzled readers since Leroux's first edition, and it offers a fascinating glimpse into the writing process of one of France's literary icons. |
| the phantom of the opera book: The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies Blake Howe, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Neil Lerner, Joseph Straus, 2015-10-15 The Oxford Handbook of Disability Studies represents a comprehensive state of current research for the field of Disability Studies and Music. The forty-two chapters in the book span a wide chronological and geographical range, from the biblical, the medieval, and the Elizabethan, through the canonical classics of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, up to modernist styles and contemporary musical theater and popular genres, with stops along the way in post-Civil War America, Ghana and the South Pacific, and many other interesting times and places. Disability is a broad, heterogeneous, and porous identity, and that diversity is reflected in the variety of bodily conditions under discussion here, including autism and intellectual disability, deafness, blindness, mobility impairment often coupled with bodily difference, and cognitive and intellectual impairments. Amid this diversity of time, place, style, medium, and topic, the chapters share two core commitments. First, they are united in their theoretical and methodological connection to Disability Studies, especially its central idea that disability is a social and cultural construction. Disability both shapes and is shaped by culture, including musical culture. Second, these essays individually and collectively make the case that disability is not something at the periphery of culture and music, but something central to our art and to our humanity. |
| the phantom of the opera book: Lost in Space Ben Tanzer, 2014 Lost in Space is a funny, sometimes sad, but always lively essay collection about fatherhood, and sex, because sex sells. |
| the phantom of the opera book: Phantom of the Opera Gaston Leroux, 2021-02-23 The Phantom of the Opera (1910) is a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux. Originally serialized in Le Galois, the novel was inspired by legends revolving around the Paris Opera from the early nineteenth century. Originally a journalist, Leroux turned to fiction after reading the works of Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Allan Poe. Despite its lack of success relative to Leroux’s other novels, The Phantom of the Opera has become legendary through several adaptations for film, theater, and television, including Andrew Lloyd Webber’s celebrated 1886 Broadway musical of the same name. In 1880s Paris, the legendary Palais Garnier Opera House is rumored to be haunted by a malignant entity. Known as the Phantom of the Opera, he has been linked to the hanging death of a stagehand in addition to several strange and mysterious occurrences. Just before a gala performance, a young Swedish soprano named Christine is called on to replace the opera’s lead, who is suffering from a last-minute illness. From the audience, the Vicomte Raoul de Chagny recognizes Christine, his childhood sweetheart, and goes backstage after the opera has ended to reintroduce himself. While waiting by her dressing room, he hears her talking to an unknown man, but upon entering finds himself alone with Christine. Pressing her for information, she reveals that she has been receiving lessons from a figure she calls the Angel of Music, prompting suspicion and terror in Raoul, who is familiar with the legend of the Phantom. As Raoul makes his feelings for Christine known, the Phantom professes his love for his protégé, and a battle for her affection ensues. Caught in this love triangle, threatened on all sides by jealousy and pursuit, Christine struggles to hold on as her star in the Paris Opera rises. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera is a classic of French literature reimagined for modern readers. |
| the phantom of the opera book: The Secret of the Night Gaston Leroux, 2018-01-25 Like The Mystery of the Yellow Room, The Secret of the Night is a Joseph Rouletabille mystery. In The Mystery of the Yellow Room fictional detective Rouletabille investigated a complex and seemingly impossible crime - in which the criminal appears to disappear from a locked room! There've been so many locked-room mysteries since that it's become a subgenre - but there are folks who believe Gaston Leroux invented the form. (We hate assertions like that. Have you noticed how often things turn out to have been invented by monks in the middle ages, or by prehistoric Chinamen, or seventeenth-century Englishmen? - Heavy sigh.) John Dickson Carr, the master of locked-room mystery, named The Mystery of the Yellow Room as the finest locked room tale ever written in his 1935 novel the Hollow Man. |
| the phantom of the opera book: An Unreliable Truth Victor Methos, 2021-08 From the bestselling author of A Killer's Wife, Victor Methos's acclaimed Desert Plains series continues with the saga of two brilliant defense attorneys and a client whose confession may not be what it seems. Two couples cut to bits near a canyon close to the Nevada border. The police pull over blood-soaked Arlo Ward not far from the site of the grisly murders; he fully cooperates with the officers, grinning through a remorseless confession dripping with gory detail. Investigators find no murder weapon, but young, awkward Arlo's confession is signed, taped, and delivered. Defense attorney Dylan Aster and his partner, Lily Ricci, are two rising legal stars. They're hesitant about pursuing the Arlo Ward case, as it seems like a slam dunk for the prosecution--Arlo was covered in the victims' DNA and admitted to everything. But the state psychiatrist shares the impossible with Dylan: Arlo Ward is likely innocent. The man is racked with delusional schizophrenia, seizing on these murders as an opportunity for macabre attention. Dylan can't resist. He and Lily take on Arlo as their client, but once the trial commences, it's clear that the real secrets and lies are just beginning. |
| the phantom of the opera book: The Undergrounds of the Phantom of the Opera J. Hogle, 2002-05-30 This is the most comprehensive analytical study ever done of The Phantom of the Opera in its many different versions from the original Gaston Leroux novel to the present day. It proposes answers to the question, 'why do we keep needing this story told and retold in the Western world?' by revealing the history of deep cultural tensions that underlie the novel and each major adaptation. Using extensive historical and textual evidence and drawing on perspectives from several theories of cultural study, this book argues that we need this tale told and reconfigured because it provides us ways to both confront and disguise how we have fashioned our senses of identity in the Western middle class. The Phantom of the Opera - in varying ways over time - turns out like the 'Gothic' tradition it extends, to be deeply connected to Western self-fashioning in the face of conflicted attitudes about class, gender, race, religious beliefs, Freudian psychology, economic and international tensions, and especially the shifting and permeable boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture. This book should interest all students of the history of Western culture, as well as those especially fascinated by Gothic fiction, opera, musical theatre, and film. |
| the phantom of the opera book: The Phantom of the Opera Gaston Leroux, Alexander Teixeira De Mattos, 2014-12-24 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. |
| the phantom of the opera book: Lessons from the Phantom of the Opera Holland Legacy Publishing, Vicki Hopkins, 2011-03 The Phantom of the Opera is a chilling tale interlaced with darkness, despair, love, and redemption. Originally penned by Gaston Leroux, the book is classic literature. Leroux weaves the tale of a deformed man living in isolation underneath the Paris Opera House, who desperately loves a beautiful girl named Christine Daae. The masked man has many names-Phantom of the Opera, Opera Ghost, Angel of Music, and Erik. He is a broken soul who yearns for beauty, but lives in hell. His desperate search for love takes him down a road of obsession and violence, and the cry of his despair echoes in our hearts. All I wanted was to be loved for myself. Lessons from The Phantom of the Opera steps behind the scenes and examines the symbolism hidden in the characters, emotions, sets, and events. The book leads its readers on an emotional journey studying the motivations of the characters and the numerous symbols hidden throughout the Opera House. It examines not only Leroux's original work, but also analyzes the play and movie. As a result, lessons and life applications emerge from a timeless masterpiece for everyone to enjoy. |
| the phantom of the opera book: Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 1: The Phantom of the Opera Jennifer Bassett, 2007-11-08 Word count 6,230 Bestseller |
| the phantom of the opera book: The Phantom of the Opera Gaston Leroux, 2018-02-11 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. |
| the phantom of the opera book: Love Never Dies D. Brook, 2003-12 Dana Reardon was sure her life ended too the day her husband, Michael, was killed. One year later, with the help of friend Brady Williams, she vows to accept Michael's death, gain back her health, and find a job. Brady had been Michael's law partner and best friend. Falling in love with Brady was not what Dana expected. Learning that he was in love with her was even more of a shock. They felt they were betraying Michael's memory when they made plans for their future together. When Dana's twin sister, Della, comes into the picture Dana and Brady have to put their feelings on hold. Brady is convinced that Della is trouble and almost loses Dana to prove it. Dana is sure she has lost Brady, because of not believing in him, even though she is carrying his child. She has loving memories of her deceased husband, but now she's in love with Brady. She has learned that you can love two men at the same time because Love Never Dies. |
| the phantom of the opera book: Phantom Variations Ann C. Hall, 2009-06-01 This book examines the themes and variations of Phantom of the Opera, exploring the story's appeal to multiple generations through numerous incarnations. After discussing Gaston Leroux's original 1910 novel, the work turns first to Phantom on film from Lon Chaney's 1925 Phantom through Dario Argento's 1998 film. Stage versions of Phantom are then covered in detail, including Webber's spectacular 1986 production and its lesser-known predecessors and competitors, and those that followed. A final section looks at novels and miscellaneous adaptations ranging from erotic fiction to a Donald Barthelme short story. |
| the phantom of the opera book: The Phantom of the Opera Gaston Leroux, 2015-01-07 Support Struggle for Public Domain: like and share http://facebook.com/BookLiberationFrontThe Phantom of the Opera is best known as the cult classic musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Weber, and we overlook the masterpiece that inspired the great musical. Do NOT overlook this book, it is a must for both fans of the musical and new readers of all ages.The Phantom of the Opera is the story of Erik, a horribly disfigured man who was a torturer in a Persian court, who has lived his life in sadness. He is forced to flee from the court in Persia because of a threat on his life and after serving in many other places, he retires to the cellars of the Paris Opera House. Here, he spends his days composing his very own operetta, Don Juan Triumphant, which becomes his life's work. However, when he is not hard at work composing, sleeping, or wallowing in self pity, he meddles in the affairs of the opera house and takes control of how things are run by posing as the Opera Ghost.It is in this fashion that he meets Christine Daae, a young woman who once had a glorious voice, but her talent was dimmed for grief at the death of her father. Christine's father had told her tales of sending her an angel of music when he died, so Erik posed as Christine's angel and gave her singing lessons. Then, one brilliant night, Christine triumphed by performing her first lead (Margarita in the opera Faust.) It was a divine performance and all were enchanted by her.Enter, the Viscompt de Chagny, who is madly in love with our young starlet;Christine returns his affections;this does not bode well with our dearest phantom.Thus begins a battle between Raoul the Viscompt and Erik the Phantom of the Opera, over the heart of young Christine Daae.This turns into a battle of life and death, but who emerges the victor? And where does Chrisine's heart truly lie? Will Christine discover the dark secrets of Erik's past?This book is absolutely exquisite and is filled with lush, gothic, imagery. A must read. |
| the phantom of the opera book: The Phantom of the Opera Gaston LeRoux, 2019-12-31 In Paris in the 1880s, the Palais Garnier opera house is believed to be haunted by an entity known as the Phantom of the Opera, or simply the Opera Ghost. A stagehand named Joseph Buquet is found hanged and the rope around his neck goes missing. At a gala performance for the retirement of the opera house's two managers, a young little-known Swedish soprano, Christine Daaé (based on the late singer Christina Nilsson), is called upon to sing in place of the Opera's leading soprano, Carlotta, who is ill, and her performance is an astonishing success. The Vicomte Raoul de Chagny, who was present at the performance, recognizes her as his childhood playmate and recalls his love for her. He attempts to visit her backstage, where he hears a man complimenting her from inside her dressing room. He investigates the room once Christine leaves, only to find it empty. |
| the phantom of the opera book: The Phantom of the Opera (Special Edition) Gaston Leroux, 2016-07-07 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. |
| the phantom of the opera book: For Love of the Phantom Davyne DeSye, Gaston Leroux, 2017-05-15 In this sequel to Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera, the young lovers, Christine and Raoul, leave the Phantom in his lair under the Opera House. After faking his own death to escape the authorities, the Phantom sets out to find Christine again, eventually following her to London. With a detective after the Phantom and Christine endangered when Jack the Ripper begins his killing spree not far from Christine's home, the Phantom must put his life at risk for his love.Will Christine -- desperate for song (which her husband, Raoul, has forbidden in his jealousy) -- finally open her heart to the Phantom as he desires? |
| the phantom of the opera book: The Phantom of the Opera Gaston Leroux, 2017-09-02 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. |
| the phantom of the opera book: The Phantom of the Opera Gaston Leroux, 1989 A disfigured musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House falls in love with a beautiful soprano and, in his desperation to have his love returned, embarks on some terrifying means towards that end. |
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The meaning of PHANTOM is something apparent to sense but with no substantial existence : apparition. How to use phantom in a sentence.
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Jun 6, 2025 · Step 4: Explore Phantom features. Once your wallet is set up and funded, start exploring what Phantom can do. Manage cryptocurrencies. View token balances, transaction …
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The friendly crypto wallet for tokens, NFTs, and DeFi. Phantom makes it easy, safe, and fun for everyone to explore all that Web3 has to offer. Do More With Your Crypto - Instant …
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Phantom eller phnatoms kan syfta på: Phantom (spelkonsol) – en planerad spelkonsol som aldrig färdigställdes; McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II – ett amerikanskt stridsflygplan; Phantom …
PHANTOM Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
Phantom definition: an apparition or specter.. See examples of PHANTOM used in a sentence.
What is Phantom wallet and what is it used for? – Phantom
May 29, 2025 · Phantom wallet is a secure, self-custodial cryptocurrency wallet designed to make Web3 accessible and intuitive for everyone. Available as a browser extension and mobile app, …
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Oct 11, 2023 · Phantom allows you to purchase crypto, including SOL, ETH, and USDC, with fiat currency directly within the app. From the home screen, select the “Buy” button, choose your …
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Phantom is your go-to crypto wallet. Buy cryptocurrency. Trade memecoins. Store your assets. Grow your portfolio. Available on Solana, Ethereum, Bitcoin, Base, and Sui.
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Feb 4, 2022 · Phantom is a non custodial crypto wallet of the Solana blockchain. This wallet allows you to manage digital assets and lets you access the world of decentralized applications …
PHANTOM Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of PHANTOM is something apparent to sense but with no substantial existence : apparition. How to use phantom in a sentence.
How to get started with Phantom – Phantom
Jun 6, 2025 · Step 4: Explore Phantom features. Once your wallet is set up and funded, start exploring what Phantom can do. Manage cryptocurrencies. View token balances, transaction …
Phantom - Crypto Wallet on the App Store
The friendly crypto wallet for tokens, NFTs, and DeFi. Phantom makes it easy, safe, and fun for everyone to explore all that Web3 has to offer. Do More With Your Crypto - Instant transactions …
Download - Phantom
Download Phantom for Chrome, Brave, FireFox, iOS, or Android
Phantom – Wikipedia
Phantom eller phnatoms kan syfta på: Phantom (spelkonsol) – en planerad spelkonsol som aldrig färdigställdes; McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II – ett amerikanskt stridsflygplan; Phantom …
PHANTOM Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
Phantom definition: an apparition or specter.. See examples of PHANTOM used in a sentence.
What is Phantom wallet and what is it used for? – Phantom
May 29, 2025 · Phantom wallet is a secure, self-custodial cryptocurrency wallet designed to make Web3 accessible and intuitive for everyone. Available as a browser extension and mobile app, …
How to use Phantom - Bitstamp Trusted Crypto Exchange
Oct 11, 2023 · Phantom allows you to purchase crypto, including SOL, ETH, and USDC, with fiat currency directly within the app. From the home screen, select the “Buy” button, choose your …
