The Phantom of the Opera - Softcover

Leroux, Gaston

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099560550 ISBN 13: 9780099560555

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2012

Synopsis

Christine is a beautiful young singer at the Paris Opera. She is watched by the Opera's 'phantom' - a mysterious masked figure who terrorises the Opera's management and players. With the Phantom's help, Christine rises to become the Opera's star performer, but when the Phantom demands her heart in return, Christine is torn between gratitude and pity for her strange benefactor, and love for her childhood sweetheart, Raoul.

About this title

Review:

"A Gothic novel of romance, honour and tragedy with a creepy, obsessive underbelly" (Daily Telegraph)

"A venerable, much-adapted story of grand, delicate feelings and gothic creepiness" (New York Times)

"Mixes horror and romance in equal measure" (Guardian)

From the Publisher:

Christopher Lee is one of the world's most iconic horror and fantasy actors - coming to prominence with the 1957 film `The Curse of Frankenstein' in which he played Frankenstein's monster. This began a long association with the film studio Hammer - with whom he made a further eleven films including the Transylvanian bloodsucker himself in the 1958 `Dracula', Kharis in `The Mummy' (1959), Sir Henry Baskerville in `The Hound of the Baskervilles' (1959) and Rasputin in `Rasputin, the Mad Monk' (1966). He also starred in two Denis Wheatley films `The Devil Rides Out (1967) and `To the Devil a Daughter' (1976).

Most recently, he has starred in `The Colour of Magic' (2008) `The Golden Compass' (2007), `Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith' (2005) & `Star Wars: Attack of the Clones' (2002) and as Saruman in the recent `The Lord of the Rings' trilogy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0099560550
• ISBN 13: 9780099560555
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320