The Phantom of the Opera

Gaston Leroux

• Publisher: Passerino
• Year: 2019
• ISBN:
  9788835334453
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literature General
• Index: Literature

The Phantom of the Opera is a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux. It was first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois from 23 September 1909, to 8 January 1910. It was published in volume form in late March 1910 by Pierre Lafitte and directed by Aluel Malinao.
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.
It has been successfully adapted into various stage and film adaptations, most notable of which are the 1925 film depiction featuring Lon Chaney, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical. Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (6 May 1868– 15 April 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, notably the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical. His novel The Mystery of the Yellow Room is one of the most celebrated locked-room mysteries.

Table of contents

• Cover
• The Phantom of the Opera
• Table of contents
• Prologue
• Is it the Ghost?
• The New Margarita
• The Mysterious Reason
• Box Five
• The Enchanted Violin
• A Visit to Box Five
• Faust and What Followed
• The Mysterious Brougham
• At the Masked Ball
• Forget the Name of the Man's Voice
• Above the Trap-Doors
• Apollo's Lyre
• A Master-Stroke of the Trap-Door Lover
• The Singular Attitude of a Safety-Pin
• Christine! Christine!
• Mme. Giry's Astounding Revelations as to Her Personal Relations with the Opera Ghost
• The Safety-Pin Again
• The Commissary, The Viscount and the Persian
• The Viscount and the Persian
• In the Cellars of the Opera
• Interesting and Instructive Vicissitudes of a Persian in the Cellars of the Opera
• In the Torture Chamber
• The Tortures Begin
• "Barrels! ... Barrels! ... Any Barrels to Sell?"
• The Scorpion or the Grasshopper: Which?
• The End of the Ghost's Love Story
• Epilogue
• The Paris Opera House