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  • Published: 3 December 2012
  • ISBN: 9780099560555
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $29.99

The Phantom of the Opera




The classic Gothic horror novel of haunted cellars, opera, murder and unrequited love that inspired Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical

Christine is a beautiful young singer at the Paris Opera. She is watched by the Opera's 'phantom' - a mysterious masked figure who terrorises the Opera's management and players. With the Phantom's help, Christine rises to become the Opera's star performer, but when the Phantom demands her heart in return, Christine is torn between gratitude and pity for her strange benefactor, and love for her childhood sweetheart, Raoul.

  • Published: 3 December 2012
  • ISBN: 9780099560555
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $29.99

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About the author

Gaston Leroux

Gaston Leroux, French journalist and writer of suspense fiction, was born in Paris in 1868. His experiences as a crime reporter and war correspondent for a French newspaper gave him the background to create his popular novels. He was one of the originators of the detective story, and his young fictional detective, Joseph Rouletabile, was the forerunner of many reporter-detective characters in modern fiction. Two of Leroux’s best-known mysteries are The Perfume of the Lady in Black and The Mystery of the Yellow Room, which is considered one of the finest “locked room” mysteries ever written. A second series of suspense adventures featured an old rascal named Cheri-Bibi. But Leroux’s most enduring work is, of course, The Phantom of the Opera, which was first published in 1910. Leroux died in Nice, France, in 1927.

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Praise for The Phantom of the Opera

A Gothic novel of romance, honour and tragedy with a creepy, obsessive underbelly

Daily Telegraph

A venerable, much-adapted story of grand, delicate feelings and gothic creepiness

New York Times

Mixes horror and romance in equal measure

Guardian