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The Phantom of the Opera

novel by Leroux

Also known as: “Le Fantôme de l’opéra”

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In Gaston Leroux
In 1910 The Phantom of the Opera appeared serially (before publication as a novel) and received only moderate sales and somewhat poor reviews. The melodrama of the hideous recluse abducting a beautiful young woman in a Paris opera house did not achieve international celebrity until the American…
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