The phantom of the opera
By: Gaston Leroux ; from the English translation by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
Contributors: Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander, translator
Publisher: Dalmatian Press Classics; FQ Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: United States
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781403793973
Subjects: Composers; Disfigured persons; Opera; Translations into English; Unrequited love; Phantom of the Opera (Fictitious character); Fiction; French fiction; History
Description: Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera, first published in 1910, remained a perennial favorite throughout the twentieth century and into the early 2000s. It was adapted to several popular motion pictures and into one of the most successful stage musicals of all time. Its main character, Erik, is a romantic figure whose appeal reaches across different cultures and times. He is a sensitive soul, an accomplished composer and musician whose great unfinished work, Don Juan Triumphant, is described as breathtakingly beautiful by the one person he allows to hear it; he is an object of pity, whose face has been disfigured from birth, causing him to hide behind a silk mask; and he is hopelessly in love with a young woman whom he can never seriously hope will love him back. At the same time, he a dangerous, menacing figure, lurking in the hidden catacombs beneath the opera house and blackmailing those who will not bow to his whims. He can hear things said in privacy and can create catastrophes that might or might not be the accidents that they seem to be.
Table of contents: title: 1. Is it the Ghost?; title: 2. The New Margarita; title: 3. The Mysterious Reason; title: 4. Box Five; title: 5. The Enchanted Violin; title: 6. A Visit to Box Five; title: 7. Faust and What Followed; title: 8. The Mysterious Brougham; title: 9. At the Masked Ball; title: 10. Forget the Name of the Man's Voice; title: 11. Above the Trap-Doors; title: 12. Apollo's Lyre; title: 13. A Master-Stroke of the Trap-Door Lover; title: 14. The Singular Attitude of a Safety-Pin; title: 15. Christine! Christine!; title: 16. Mme. Giry's Astounding Revelations; title: 17. The Safety-Pin Again; title: 18. The Commissioner, the Viscount and the Persian; title: 19. The Viscount and the Persian; title: 20. In the Cellars of the Opera; title: 21. Interesting and Instructive Vicissitudes; title: 22. In the Torture Chamber; title: 23. The Tortures Begin; title: 24. Barrels! ... Barrels! ... Any Barrels to Sell?"; title: 25. The Scorpion or the Grasshopper: Which?; title: 26. The End of the Phantom's Love Story; title: - Epilogue; title: The Paris Opera House.