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The Phantom of the Opera: The Original Novel

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The Phantom of the Opera: The Original Novel
Gaston Leroux
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
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The novel that inspired the Lon Chaney film and the hit musical. "The wildest and most fantastic of tales."--New York Times Book Review.

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Wow. This is really a bad book........2007-04-10

No seriously.
I had the highest expectation for this experience. But the story is a mess.
It's episodic to the point of distraction. The point of view changes randomly. At one point it's a confession, or a "verbal account". Then it is a written account from a character hardly seen in the first 70% of the story. To say the characters are weakly developed is an insult to...uh...weak people. The language is occasionally witty, but often repetitive and uninteresting.
The best part of the novel is the epilogue, which gives details of the Phantom's origins, all of which are FAR more interesting than the contents of the book. I also loved a bit about the real Opera House that came with my Easton Press copy.
I loved the stage musical, I loved the old films, I liked the new film...this was extremely disappointing.

Excellent story.......2007-03-08

This is a very gripping, interesting story. I woul Anthologie grecque, tome 1 : Anthologie palatine, tomeVII (Livre IX, 1ère partie : épigr, tome 1- 358)

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Anthologie grecque, tome 1 : Anthologie palatine, tomeVII (Livre IX, 1ère partie : épigr, tome 1- 358)
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ringtone88.com ) Match your wits with his rival detectives - one amateur, one professional - as they try to crack the mystery. Mademoiselle Stangerson retires to bed in the Yellow Room. Suddenly revolver shots echo through the house and she screams for help. Her father and a servant run to the locked room where they find the wounded girl - alone. The only other exit, a window - barred. How had the assailant escaped?

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far-fetched.......2006-03-22

The plot of "The Mystery of the Yellow Room" is very clever, but the details of its execution depend on so many "near misses" (whether they be flying bullets or close escapes into the dark) and coincidences that it weakens its impact. Leroux's prose (in translation) is dry, unengaging and unevocative. My guess is that the original French prose was just as dull. It is a chore to get through his admixture of present, past, and past perfect tenses all piled one upon another telegrammatically. Some great eloquent story teller, I believe, could have given the story a rich enjoyable texture rather than leaving it as a barren, almost academic "brain teaser". The characters are only given so much dimension as to fit with the final solution but no other hints of humanity. Some of the motivations are silly indeed: for example, the young detective is willing to allow a second murderous assault on the victim just so he can get a better look at the villain's face!!! By the way, I figured out why the victim would not help the police apprehend her attacker, although I did not discover who he was. She did not know exactly who the attacker was because of a series of contrived situations that prevented her from coming face to face with the attacker despite many possible opportunities. That was really far-fetched! In short, The Mystery of the Yellow Room was a great first draft for a potentially great novel. One final question: If you are chasing a villain and he pulls off his fake beard and wig, do you suddenly have no clue that the person before you is the same one you have just been chasing, especially if he has been out of sight for only seconds?

bye bye to Sherlock Holmes........2005-01-16

This THE best mystery that ever took place in the locked-up room. You are going to like this Rouletabill; he is not a detective, but a journalist!!! He slowly starts to untangle the strings of mystery of the yellow room. You will be drawn into the book by this character made by Leroux, every time Rouletabill finds a clue, every time he puts the pieces together, and every time he attempts to catch the murder. The murder occured in the yellow room is already mysterius, but theres more. This book is full of the starnge happeneings and in the end, they are all explained by no other than Rouletabill, and MAN it felt good!!! I will garantee you will be suprized by the ending of this book, bye bye to Sherlock Holmes, he'll be out of job in no time!!!

An ingenious page-turner.......2004-12-20

Mlle. Strangerson, the daughter of a famous scientist, is brutally attacked in her bedroom. The window is barred, and the door is double bolted. No one, it seems, could have left the room. However, somehow, he did, leaving strange clues - a bloody imprint of a hand on the wall, a cap, and a hankerchief.
MYSTERY OF THE YELLOW ROOM is pure genius. Leroux winds and twists together meticoulous detail, interesting psychology, and seemingly impossible occurrences that produce a truly enjoyable and schocking finale. This is a wonderful read, and it is great for a rainy day.
MYSTERY OF THE YELLOW ROOM is an extremely influential book, though it is now virtually forgotten. It is one of the first locked-room mysteries, and it inspired Agatha Christie to write her first book.

A Unique Mystery.......2002-02-21

Leroux's story, in this writer's opinion, truly tops those of Doyle. It's a seemingly impossible case to solve, so complex that a diagram of the house has to be inserted in the book, and the outcome is surprising. Do not be thrown off by Leroux's seemingly clunky writing -- a complaint many have had with his other famous novel "The Phantom of the Opera." Leroux was originally a journalist, and even as an author, found it more comfortable to write his fiction as though they were written by a journalist, perhaps for a newspaper.

There are a couple of odd things that I guess just don't translate into English. One, throughout the entire novel they discuss "the murder of Mmme. Stangerson" -- though in fact it was simply an attempted murder. For many chapters I was trying to figure out how Mmme. Stangerson could be talking if she was murdered.

Also, my diagram seems to be missing a crucial number explaining where one of the windows is. While this is frustrating, it is fully possible to enjoy the novel anyway. I highly recommend this book, whether you're a Leroux fan, a mystery fan, or a fan of early 20th century fiction.

Bir klasik !! - Sari Odanin Esrari.......2000-11-22

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The Phantom Of The Opera (Great Illustrated Classics)

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Illustrated? If that's what you want to call it....

The Phantom Of The Opera (Great Illustrated Classics)
Gaston Leroux , and Shannon Donnelly
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Nice job.......2005-07-17

When I saw Phantom of the Opera on the shelf. I instantly purchased it and read it... Th Anthologie grecque, tome 10 : Anthologie palatine (Livre XI)

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ringtone88.com " alt="5 out of 5 stars" border="0"> Easy to understand.......2006-02-24

This version of The Phantom of the Opera is an excellent one for beginning readers and adults as well. For beginners, it is an easy-to-understand way to introduce the classic work. But this is also true for older readers. The unabridged version is an excellent book, but it might be hard to follow or just plain intimidating for many readers. Reading the Stepping Stone version first will give a clear understanding of the book. For instance, time jumps around in the regular version - and the history of the Phantom isn't even given until the very end. The Stepping Stone version proceeds from start to finish with the normal time frame. Readers who enjoy the book, will find the transition to reading the "real" book much easier. Stepping Stones are a great way to ease kids and adults into classic reads.

Worth re-reading........2005-12-02

This story comes off as a pretty typical penny-dreadful sort of tale at first glance, but there are subtle themes that are not apparent on the first read. I won't bore with details, but it is an unusually rich, human story despite the somewhat fantastical setting and the exaggerations inherent in the character of Erik.

Speaking of Erik (that's "The Phantom" to those of you who don't know), he's one of the best villians I've encountered in a while, right up there with Darth Vader. he is capable of extreme wickedness, but is still sympathetic, and those are always the villians that you remember. While Andrew Lloyd Webber did a fair job of adapting this tale to the stage and eventually film, much changed in the process, particularly Erik. He is not so slick in this book as he is in the musical, and definitely a bit more crazy, but I actually prefer Leroux's original to the derivative. The 2004 film did not quite do justice to this complex story and those who have only seen the film and no other form of the Phantom story ought to do themselves a favor and read the book.

In reference to the specific edition I purchased, the Greg Hildebrandt illustrated one, it is not, as has been mentioned in some reviews above (probably due to the fact that Amazon has made an unholy mess by crossing reviews from the umpteen different versions of this book), an abridged version. There are distilled children's editions out there, one by Peter Neumeyer, and another in the Illustrated Classics series but this isn't a children's edition despite the illustrations. This is, as far as I can tell (at least by comparing it to the free Gutenberg Project version) a complete translation of the original French text. I bought this edition specifically for the illustrations, which I enjoy, but some people do not care for the Hildebrandt style. If you like this artist, though, it is worth having for the pictures alone.

The Phantom of the Opera.......2005-12-01

If you're looking for a scary love story, then this is the book for you! Eric has the voice of an angel but the face of a monster. When he takes his ask off people scream and run away. So, he hides himself away in the bottom of the opera house.
Eric falls in love with a beautiful singer named Christine. Christine is forced to love him but she loves another man named Raul. Raul knows about the phantom and wants to hurt him.
The phantom scares everybody by turning the lights off and tacks Christine to his dungeon there she sees Raul in the dungeon...but you will have to read the book to hear the ending.

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The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Gaston Leroux
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1908. The Mystery of the Yellow Room is the first book that justified Leroux's decision to give up journalism and concentrate on producing books. It was an early example of a locked room mystery, in which a murder is committed behind impenetrable sealed doors. The impossible crime was solved by a Gallic Sherlock Holmes of Leroux's invention, a detective called Joseph Rouletabille. The novel begins: It is not without a certain emotion that I begin to recount here the extraordinary adventures of Joseph Rouletabille. Down to the present time he had so firmly opposed my doing it that I had come to despair of ever publishing the most curious of police stories of the past fifteen years. I had even imagined that the public would never know the whole truth of the prodigious case known as that of The Yellow Room, out of which grew so many mysterious, cruel, and sensational dramas, with which my friend was so closely mixed up, if, propos of a recent nomination of the illustrious Stangerson to the grade of grand cross of the Legion of Honour, an evening journal, in an article, miserable for its ignorance, or audacious for its perfidy, had not resuscitated a terrible adventure of which Joseph Rouletabille had told me he wished to be for ever forgotten. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

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The Phantom Of The Opera [UNABRIDGED]
Gaston Leroux
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A shadow of unease; a quickening pulse; an unnamed fear breathing on the collar of those who sit alone in their dressing rooms at the great Paris Opera. An unbearable compulsion to glance quickly over a shoulder in the dark corridors to the stage would sometimes reveal a figure in evening clothes moving softly in the shadowsÂ—a figure no one could name. Nothing is done, however, until the disappearance of Christine Daaé during her triumphant performance. With an increasing pattern of fear and violence, the Phantom of the Opera begins to strike but always with a beautiful young performer at the center of his deadly desires.

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Good reading.......2007-01-10

I love books of CD. I am in my car a great deal and books make the time go faster. I also miss a great deal (gotta pay attn to driving) so I listen over and over until I get it. This book can be complicated so listening more than once was necessary but I like this book very much.

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ringtone88.com ap that he is. He thinks that Leroux intended it to be that way, and that Christine has a much stronger bond with Erik than she does Raoul.

On the whole, I wish Wolf had written more. How about interpretive essays on the various adaptations, including the Lloyd Weber musical? He does include a lengthy introduction about the novel and Gaston Leroux himself. This volume is a must-have for any Phantom-enthusiast.

Wonderful resource.......2005-01-27

For fans of Phantom of the Opera the musical/movie, or just fans of literature of this time, I think this is a wonderful choice. This copy includes a lot of historical information that someone who isn't from Paris of the time just wouldn't catch otherwise, as well as a lot of critical analysis from an expert.

So, if you want to understand this book much more, this is a great edition.

EDIT: I've specifically learned that this is also a completely different translation than that which is available in public domain, and it does seem to include some nuances which are NOT in the other versions.

A reasonable choice.......2005-01-10

I picked up this copy of Phantom on a whim while at the bookstore and while I do not regret the decision, this book does have some flaws.
There are numerous typographical errors in the text of an obvious nature which do not detract from the story per se, but do make it less enjoyable to read. The annotations are well placed and informative but can become repetitive as their author harps on the basic characterizations of Raoul and Erik. The illustrations are over inked for the coarseness of the paper and can be somewhat unpleasant to look at.

If you are a casual reader, you may not want this edition. However, if you are more interested in the history of the book and the Opera House it depicts than the text itself, this is a copy worth purchasing.

New edition..........2004-12-17

This is the second printing of Leonard Wolf's "The essential Phantom of the Opera" that was first released back in 1996 (just in time for the releasing of ALW's Phantom movie...cleaver).

Many Phantom "phans" have been waiting for this book to be reprinted...and many have paid good money for 1st editions just last year. I have had a first edition since 1996, but also purchased this copy as there was supposed to be 8+ additional pages of info included (haven't found them yet, though...hummmm....).

This is a very good resource for those who wish to research Erik, The Phantom, in depth and learn more about him...more than merely what ALW gave us in his play (it lacks greatly in my opinion....).

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The Phantom of the Opera (Thrift Edition)
Gaston Leroux
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This thrilling novel and its many adaptations have captured the imaginations of countless audiences throughout the 20th century. The mystery classic featuring the "ghost" of the famed Paris landmark tells a gripping tale of human desire, fear, and violence before it resolves itself in a shocking and tragic confrontation.

The Phantom Of The Opera: Illustrated And Unabridged Edition

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Wonderful
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A Very Worthy Edtion of the Phantom
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Wonderful.......2006-07-09

I love the original novel of the Phantom writen by Leroux, and this edition is just wonderful. The pictures with different styles and artists are just great and there's even a little new story at the end.
A great book for Phantom collectors.
Ladyghost.

This Should Be the OFFICIAL Translation of POTO.......2006-06-02

"All I ever needed to be good was to be loved for myself", thus Erik pathetically implores his beloved Christine as he tries to convince her to choose him over death.

For those of you who read the original translation and couldn't understand it, or those who've never read Leroux's original story, this book is a must read! Written in concise, easy to understand language, the Lofficiers offer a rendition of Leroux's novel that doesn't lose the original author's investigative, reporter's tone. It renders an in-depth account of Raoul's and Christine's relationship when they knew each other as children and the part Christine's father played during that one summer they spent together by the sea. I also found several places, especially in the beginning of the book, where the dialog Anthologie grecque, tome 4 : Anthologie palatine, (Livre VII, 1ère partie, épigr, tome I - 363)

Anthologie grecque, tome 4 : Anthologie palatine, (Livre VII, 1ère partie, épigr, tome I - 363)

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Daily life in Antiquity.
The contents of this book are only a small portion of what is called the Greek Anthology, which consists in about 4000 Greek epigrams (short poems) from the period +- 600 BC - 600 AD.
They were collected for the first time in a manuscript of the 13th century. This work is divided into 16 books each with a different subject. You don't have to read all 4000 epigrams, you just choose a book with a subject you like. The most popular are Book V about Love, Book VII about death and funeral, Book XI about Bacchus and satires and Book XIV about problems, riddles and oracles.
You can learn a great deal about every day life in Antiquity just by reading this short poems (some of them no more than two lines). We read about prostitutes and courtisanes, sailors and fishermen and - for example - about three girls, shy and giggling, offering flowers to the statue of Aphrodite, goddess of Love.

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How could a crime take place in a locked room which shows no sign of being entered? Nearly a century after its initial publication, Leroux's landmark tale of foul play, deception, and unbridled ambition remains a blueprint for the detective novel genre. This atmospheric thriller is still a favorite of whodunit fans everywhere.

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great book for a mystery fan.......2006-08-02

I read this book not knowing what to expect. I had read many mystery books before this one so I was pretty good at figuring out who the culprit was and how the crime was committed. The Mystery of the Yellow Room was a different story. As I was reading I tried to work out how it was done and who did it but I was stumped and I can guarentee that whoever else reads this book will be stumped as well. Ending is a great twist. This is a great mystery and I also recommend the sequel The Perfume of the Lady in Black.

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