Book Bearings
The Phantom of the Opera
- 276 pages · about 5 hours
- First published 1910
- 131 editions
- Free to read
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1 About this book
Christine is brought up by her itinerant musician father, whose death she mourns endlessly. She achieves a singing position in the Paris Opera line, where a mysterious voice teaches her to unleash her musical potential. The voice belongs to Erik, a deformed musical genius who lives in the opera house. As Christine's singing career takes off, her childhood friend Raoul begins to court her, and he and Erik fight jealously for Christine's hand.
- Horror
- Romance
- Psychological fiction
- Operas
- Composers
- Reading comprehension
- Foreign speakers
- Paris (france)
2 What to expect
A Gothic novel set in the Paris Opera House in the 1880s, where a ghost is blamed for a string of strange accidents and a young soprano is coached by an unseen voice. It blends romance, mystery and horror, with a love triangle at its center. Because it first ran as a newspaper serial, it moves in short, eventful installments, in a melodramatic style.
Good for readers who want: a classic gothic romance, an opera-house mystery, and a love triangle.
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