In the Library
The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux, 1909
- Form
- Form Novel
- Reading time
- Reading time 6 hours
- Translated by
- Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
- Chapters
- Chapters 28
- Length
- Length 83k words
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About the book
A masked figure haunts the cellars of the Paris Opera, lowering chandeliers, leaving threatening letters in box five, and sending love poems to a young Swedish soprano named Christine Daaé. Gaston Leroux published this gothic romance in serial across 1909 and 1910, framing it as a journalist's investigation into rumours that had circulated through the Palais Garnier since its opening. Erik, the disfigured genius beneath the building, has built an underground lake, a torture chamber, and an organ of his own design. He kidnaps Christine for one night and returns her, then asks her to choose: marry him, or watch the opera house burn. The chandelier falls, the cellars fill with water, and the music keeps playing above.