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Original title: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra
by Gaston Leroux · 1868–1927
"Le Fantôme de l'Opéra" by Gaston Leroux is a Gothic horror novel first published in 1909-1910. Set in the Paris Opera House, the story follows mysterious events surrounding a disfigured figure known as the Phantom. When young soprano Christine Daaé captures his obsession, a dangerous love triangle emerges between Christine, the Phantom, and her childhood love Raoul. As the Phantom's demands grow darker and more desperate, lives hang in the balance beneath the opera house.
Summary generated automatically by Project Gutenberg.
- Read time
- 459 min
- Words
- 100,949
- Chapters
- 33
- Paragraphs
- 2,853
- Price
- Free
- Composers -- Fiction
- French fiction -- 20th century
- Horror tales
- Musical fiction
- Opera -- Fiction
- Paris (France) -- Fiction
- Phantom of the Opera (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
--De celui à qui vous avez dit: _Je ne chante que pour vous!
"Of the one to whom you said: _I sing only for you!
Je vous ai donné mon âme ce soir, et je suis morte!_
I have given you my soul tonight, and I am dead!_"
Christine a saisi le bras de Raoul: elle le lui étreint avec une force que l'on ne soupçonnerait point chez cet être fragile.
Christine had seized Raoul's arm: she clung to it with a strength that one would not have suspected in such a fragile being.
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Book details
- Original language
- French
- Translation
- English, machine translation
- Source text
- Project Gutenberg #62215
- Licence
- Public domain worldwide
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