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The Phantom of the Opera

Gaston Leroux

The Phantom of the Opera

Paper book: €32.99

Digital: €7.99

Original publication
1910
Monolingual
12 June 2026
Pages
840
Difficulty
Easy
Genres
Horror, Romance
Moods
Get the chills, Fall in love, Be moved to tears
Translated from
French

Book summary

In Paris, a ghost haunts the Opera: he demands that Box Five be kept for him and threatens the managers by letter. Christine Daaé, a young Swedish singer, secretly takes lessons from a mysterious voice she calls the Angel of Music. Her childhood friend, the Vicomte Raoul de Chagny, wants to find out who is behind this voice.

A chandelier that falls in the middle of a performance, a mask, tunnels under the stage: Gaston Leroux created a character famous all over the world, both frightening and touching.

Told like an investigation and full of suspense, the novel is easy to read in the language you are learning.

The plot

幽霊をばかにする二人の支配人。二人の男がパリ・オペラ座の支配人になる。契約書の赤インクの一行が、幽霊に金を払うよう命じている。

The world of the book

パリ・オペラ座の地下。物語の舞台は1880年ごろのパリ・オペラ座。1875年に開場した巨大な劇場だ。当時のこの図は建物を縦に切って見せている。舞台の下には何層もの地下室が深く続く。工事中は水があふれて困ったため、建築家は底に水をたたえた巨大な水槽を造った。物語では、これが隠された地底湖になる。

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