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The Phantom of the Opera (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)

de Gaston Leroux (auteur), Isabel Roche (introduction), Rachel Perkins (illustrateur)
Maison d'édition : Barnes & Noble Classics
juin 2009

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The Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
  • New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars
  • Biographies of the authors
  • Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events
  • Footnotes and endnotes
  • Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work
  • Comments by other famous authors
  • Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations
  • Bibliographies for further reading
  • Indices & Glossaries, when appropriate
All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.
 
The Paris Opera is haunted—everyone knows it. Everyone, that is, except for the new managers, who spark a violent dispute with the Opera Ghost when they refuse to acknowledge his existence or submit to his demands. Sometimes surfacing as a disembodied voice in Box Five or appearing as a gentleman in evening dress with a death’s-head, the phantom is obsessed with Christine Daaé, a lovely and enigmatic novice singer endowed with an amazing voice. But impetuous Viscount Raoul de Chagny is in love with Christine, and he and his brother, Count Philippe, are swept into the phantom’s deadly illusion with horrifying consequences.
                 
Police reports, newspaper clippings, and witness interviews help a sleuthing narrator reconstruct the events of French author Gaston Leroux’s most famous tale, one that had a significant impact on contemporary detective fiction.First publishedin 1911, The Phantom of the Opera has since been the basis for many adaptations, including Lon Chaney’s silent film and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tony award-winning Broadway musical. Today, this thriller is recognized not only as a compelling yarn with gothic overtones, but an engrossing romance of stirring theatricality.

Auteur

  • Gaston Leroux (auteur)

    Gaston Leroux est né à Paris en 1868. Il exerce les métiers d'avocat, de chroniqueur judiciaire et de reporter avant de devenir écrivain. C'est en 1907 que paraît en feuilleton, dans le journal «L'Illustration», le premier roman de Gaston Leroux, «Le Mystère de la chambre jaune», qui illustre brillamment le genre très anglo-saxon du roman à énigme (voir par exemple les romans de Conan Doyle publiés en Folio Junior). «Le Mystère de la chambre jaune» remporte dès sa parution un grand succès dû autant à la qualité de son intrigue qu'au personnage attachant de Rouletabille. On retrouve dans «Le Parfum de la dame en noir» ce détective dont l'esprit de déduction éclaircit les affaires les plus mystérieuses. Dans «Le Fantôme de l'Opéra» (1910) , Gaston Leroux prolonge les aventures de Rouletabille, puis s'attache dans le cycle de «Chéri-Bibi» à la figure inquiétante d'un forçat évadé. Gaston Leroux est mort à Nice en 1927.

Auteur(s) : Gaston Leroux

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Caractéristiques

Éditeur : Barnes & Noble Classics

Auteur(s) : Gaston Leroux

Publication : 1 juin 2009

Intérieur : Noir & blanc

Support(s) : Livre numérique eBook [ePub]

Contenu(s) : ePub

Protection(s) : Marquage social (ePub)

Taille(s) : 2,49 Mo (ePub)

Langue(s) : Anglais

EAN13 Livre numérique eBook [ePub] : 9781411432901

EAN13 (papier) : 9781593082499

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