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...
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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. Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Note on the Text -- Select Bibliography -- A Chronology of Gaston Leroux -- THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA -- Appendix: The Paris Opera House -- Explanatory Notes -- Contents -- FOREWORD: In which the author of this strange tale tells the reader how he came to be absolutely convinced that there truly was a Phantom of the Opera -- 1 Was it the Ghost? -- 2 The New Marguerite -- 3 In which Messrs Debienne and Poligny, for the first time, secretly make the Opera's new Directors, Messrs Armand Moncharmin and Firmin Richard, party to their real, hidden reason for resigning from the National Academy of Music -- 4 Box 5 -- 5 Box 5 (Continued) -- 6 The Magic Violin -- 7 A Visit to Box 5 -- 8 In which Messrs Firmin Richard and Armand Moncharmin have the audacity to stage Faust in an ill-fated theatre with catastrophic results -- 9 The Mysterious Carriage -- 10 The Masked Ball -- 11 Forget the Name of the Man with the Voice -- 12 Above the Traps -- 13 Apollo's Lyre -- 14 A Masterstroke from the King of Traps -- 15 A Strange Request for a Safety Pin -- 16 'Christine! Christine!' -- 17 Mme Giry's amazing revelations of her personal dealings with the Phantom of the Opera -- 18 More about the Strange Request for a Safety Pin -- 19 The Police Inspector, the Viscount and the Persian -- 20 The Viscount and the Persian -- 21 In the Belly of the Opera -- 22 Concerning the interesting and instructive ordeals undergone by the Persian in the belly of the Opera -- 23 Inside the Torture Chamber -- 24 The Torture Begins -- 25 'Any old barrels!… Barrels!… Any old barrels for sale?' -- 26 Scorpion or Grasshopper? Which is it to be? -- 27 The End of the Phantom's Love Story -- EPILOGUE.
