Phantom of the Opera the Original NovelAuthor: Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers Summary: Gaston Leroux's novel The
Phantom of the Opera, first published in 1910, remained a
perennial favorite throughout the twentieth century and into the
millenium. It was adapted to several popular motion pictures and
into one of the most successful stage musicals of all time. Its
main character, Erik, is a romantic figure and sensitive soul
whose appeal reaches across different cultures and times. He is
an accomplished ...composer and musician whose great unfinished
work, Don Juan Triumphant, is described as breathtakingly
beautiful by the one person he allows to hear it. Erik is an
object of pity, whose face has been disfigured from birth,
causing him to hide behind a silk mask; and he is hopelessly in
love with a young woman. He can never seriously hope she will
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