The Phantom of the Opera

Gaston Leroux, Gaston Leroux

• Publisher: Start Publishing LLC
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN:
  9781625584922
• Subtopic: French Literature

During Christine's childhood, which is described retrospectively in the early chapters of the book, her father tells her many stories featuring an "Angel of Music," who, like a muse, is the personification of musical inspiration. On his deathbed, Christine's father tells her that from Heaven, he will send the Angel of Music to her. Christine is eventually given a position in the chorus at the Paris Opera House. Not long after she arrives there, she begins hearing a beautiful, unearthly voice which sings to her and speaks to her. She believes this must be the Angel of Music and asks him if he is. The Voice agrees and offers to teach her "a little bit of heaven's music."

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Prologue
• Is it the Ghost?
• The New Margarita
• The Mysterious Reason
• Box Five
• The Enchanted Violin
• A Visit to Box Five
• Faust and What Followed
• The Mysterious Brougham
• At the Masked Ball
• Forget the Name of the Man’s Voice
• Above the Trap-Doors
• Apollo’s Lyre
• A Master-Stroke of the Trap-Door Lover
• The Singular Attitude of a Safety-Pin
• Christine! Christine!
• Mme. Giry’s Astounding Revelations As to Her Personal Relations with the Opera Ghost
• The Safety-Pin Again
• The Commissary, The Viscount and the Persian
• The Viscount and the Persian
• In the Cellars of the Opera
• Interesting and Instructive Vicissitudes of a Persian in the Cellars of the Opera
• In the Torture Chamber
• The Tortures Begin
• “Barrels! ... Barrels! ... Any Barrels to Sell?”
• The Scorpion or the Grasshopper: Which?
• The End of the Ghost’s Love Story
• Epilogue
• The Paris Opera House