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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820906703321

Autore

Leroux Gaston <1868-1927, >

Titolo

The phantom of the opera / / Gaston Leroux

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : MysteriousPress.com : , : Open Road Media Integrated Media, , 2014

©1910

ISBN

1-4976-7938-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (474 p.)

Disciplina

843.912

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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



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