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The Phantom of the Opera

Gaston Leroux

The Phantom of the Opera

Paper book: €53.99

Digital: €14.99

Original publication
1910
Bilingual edition
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

Two managers laugh at a ghost. Two men become managers of the Paris Opera. In their contract, a line in red ink orders them to pay a ghost.

The world of the book

The cellars of the Paris Opera. The book is set around 1880 in the Paris Opera, a huge theatre opened in 1875. This drawing from the time shows it cut in half: below the stage, several levels of cellars go deep into…

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