The Phantom of the Opera
The Phantom of the Opera
Free DownloadThe story of a man named Erik, an eccentric, physically deformed genius who terrorizes the Opera Garnier in Paris. He builds his home beneath it and takes the love of his life, a beautiful soprano, under his wing.
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a skeleton frame. His eyes are so deep that you can hardly see the fixed pupils. You just see two big black holes, as in a dead man's skull. His skin, which is stretched across his bones like a drumhead, is not white, but a nasty yellow. His nose is so little worth talking about that you can't see it side-face; and THE ABSENCE of that nose is a horrible thing TO LOOK AT. All the hair he has is three or four long dark locks on his forehead and behind his ears."
This chief scene-shifter was a serious, sober, steady man, very slow at imagining things. His words were received with interest and amazement; and soon there were other people to say that they too had met a man in dress-clothes with a death's head on his shoulders. Sensible men who had wind of the story began by saying that Joseph Buquet had been the victim of a joke played by one of his assistants. And then, one after the other, there came a series of incidents so curious and so inexplicable that the very shrewdest people began to feel uneasy.
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Pretty decent, especially considering how old it is. The character motivation and mystery work much better than in the musical
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amazing...... i really enjoyed it. it is now my favorite book! so amazingly written and it was so intriguing and complex, it was a nail-biter to the very end!
01/19/2013
I really enjoyed this novel!
I watched the movie after but it didn't match up to the novel. I'm glad I read the book first. I'd definitely read this again.
I watched the movie after but it didn't match up to the novel. I'm glad I read the book first. I'd definitely read this again.
01/06/2013
I loved it. One of my favorite books.
01/24/2012
it is very beautiful
08/14/2011
the book was scary..
the movie was romantic..
I ♥ Gaston Leroux!
the movie was romantic..
I ♥ Gaston Leroux!
05/09/2011
I've seen the movie a couple of years back. Just recently I've been reading the book. Amazing.
12/07/2009
The original novel by Gaston Leroux is freaky, scary, humourous, and an amazing pageturner. Beats the stage adaptation by a million.
12/03/2009
Just for the record, The Phantom of the Opera is a novel, not a play. It was written about 15 years before the silent movie version!
10/27/2009
I actually had to skim through it to get to an interesting part. Still, hidden beneath Mr. Leroux rambling about things that had nothing to do with the story, is a good story line and worth reading.
08/22/2006
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