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The Phantom of the Opera

The Phantom of the Opera

Gaston Leroux · 1909 · book936 ratings

First published in the year 1909, celebrated French writer Gaston Leroux's fictional work 'The Phantom of the Opera' is a gothic novel. The novel is partly inspired by historical events at the Paris Opera during the nineteenth century and an apocryphal tale concerning the use of a former ballet pupil's skeleton in Carl Maria von Weber's 1841 production of Der Freischütz.

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pages

211

year

1909