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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

Twee directeuren lachen een spook uit. Twee mannen worden directeur van de Opera van Parijs. In hun contract staat een regel in rode inkt die hun opdraagt een spook te betalen.

The world of the book

De kelders van de Opera van Parijs. Het boek speelt rond 1880 in de Opera van Parijs, een enorm theater dat in 1875 openging. Deze tekening uit die tijd toont het gebouw doorgesneden: onder het toneel gaan…

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