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UNINA9910820906703321 |
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Leroux Gaston <1868-1927, > |
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Titolo |
The phantom of the opera / / Gaston Leroux |
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New York, New York : , : MysteriousPress.com : , : Open Road Media Integrated Media, , 2014 |
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©1910 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (474 p.) |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Title Page; Introduction; Prologue; Chapter I: Is It the Ghost?; Chapter II: The New Margarita; Chapter III: The Mysterious Reason; Chapter IV: Box Five; Chapter V: The Enchanted Violin; Chapter VI: A Visit to Box Five; Chapter VII: Faust and What Followed; Chapter VIII: The Mysterious Brougham; Chapter IX: At the Masked Ball; Chapter X: Forget the Name of the Man's Voice; Chapter XI: Above the Trap-Doors; Chapter XII: Apollo's Lyre; Chapter XIII: A Master-Stroke of the Trap-Door Lover; Chapter XIV: The Singular Attitude of a Safety-Pin; Chapter XV: Christine! Christine! |
Chapter XVI: Mme. Giry's Astounding Revelations as to Her Personal Relations with the Opera GhostChapter XVII: The Safety-Pin Again; Chapter XVIII: The Commissary, The Viscount and the Persian; Chapter XIX: The Viscount and the Persian; Chapter XX: In the Cellars of the Opera; Chapter XXI: Interesting and Instructive Vicissitudes of a Persian in the Cellars of the Opera; Chapter XXII: In the Torture Chamber; Chapter XXIII: The Tortures Begin; Chapter XXIV: "Barrels! ... Barrels! ... Any Barrels to Sell?"; Chapter XXV: The Scorpion or the Grasshopper: Which? |
Chapter XXVI: The End of the Ghost's Love StoryEpilogue; The Paris Opera House; Copyright |
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The classic Gothic novel that inspired the blockbuster musical There is a ghost in the Paris Opera House. Singers, dancers, and stagehands have all seen him lurking in the shadows of the set, and each describes |
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his face differently. Some say it is on fire, others that it is bare bone, and a terrified few say that he has no face at all. Outsiders dismiss the stories as theatrical superstition, but soon the phantom will reveal himself-and the Opera will never be the same. A crew member is found hanged, and every denizen of the theater is quick to blame the phantom. More deaths follow, until t |
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