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He recognizes his childhood sweetheart, Christine Daaé, and immediately tries to rekindle their old friendship, and perhaps something more.

We're then introduced to one of our main players, Raoul de Chagny, a viscount in Paris. The story itself begins with dancers in the Opera gossiping about the Opera Ghost being seen and having murdered a poor man to spot him and spread the rumors that he had, indeed, seen the Opera Ghost.

What we have today is a timeless novel of love, tragedy, and gothic (as in 'domestic') suspense liable to make even the most hardened person sit up and take notice.

Leroux, while intrigued about actual stories of an Opera Ghost, took it upon himself to construct and detail for us readers a very vivid, very heart-rending (and unfortunately, yes, fictional) account of the entire story behind the chandelier falling at the Paris Opera-an actual tragedy that spurred him to really look into reports of this purported Opera Ghost. Throughout the book, he gives us little bits to chew on say, for instance, Moncharmin's fictional memoir, and the Persian's written account being taken for some of the last chapters in the novel. Gaston Leroux starts off his novel with an intriguing claim that everything within the book's pages is an actual account of the tragedy of the Opera Ghost at the Paris Opera. What I am here writing on is the novel-the actual story of the Opera Ghost. Leroux's novel and Webber's adaptation of it are two completely different stories. Movie Reviews (Main) > Movie Reviews (Main)īefore I say one word about this novel, let me be frank in every way: I am not going to make comparisons to Andrew Lloyd Webber's Broadway adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera.Indie Reviews (Main) > Indie Reviews (Main).

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