A recreation of the life of the Phantom of the Opera unmasks the Paris Opera House inhabitant, telling how he was born disfigured and how he became a side-show freak, stonemason's apprentice, and eventually the masked man in search of love
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orn... His mother's only gift is a mask. Precocious and gifted, he will live friendless and alone. taunted and abused, he will flee, only to find himself caged again-as a freak in a Gypsy carnival. A brilliant outcast... the world is his home. Filled with bitter rage, he will kill to escape, becoming a stonemason's apprentice in Rome... a dark magician at the treacherous Persian court... and finally, the genius behind the construction of the Paris Opera House and the labyrinthine world below. Lacking one thing only: A woman's love. Cloaked in secrets, his power complete, he will see the exquisite Christine and for the first time know what it means to love. Obsessed, he will bring her into his eerie subterranean world, driven to posses her heart and soul. Phantom--A haunting story of power and darkness, of
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Seller: BooksRun, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way. Seller Inventory # 0385302967-7-1-13_29
Seller: BooksRun, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way. Seller Inventory # 0385302967-7-1-29
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0385302967I5N00
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0385302967I5N10
Seller: Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB), Bordentown, NJ, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First edition. First edition, first printing. Fine in bright, crisp dust jacket. Hardcover. 458 pp. A quite uncommon, particularly in first edition in this collectible condition. "The story of Erik, the child born disfigured, destined to become the Phantom of the Opera. It is the story of the simplest of heart's desires: to be loved.It is a story of power and darkness, of magic and murder, of sensuality and betrayal, and, ultimately, the eternal quality of love.". The original "Phantom of the Opera", a 1911 melodrama written by French author Gaston LeRoux inspired an iconic 1925/6 silent film starring "The Man of 1000 Faces" Lon Chaney, Sr. as Eric, another successful version in 1943 featuring Claude Rains as the Phantom, one of the all-time most successful musical stage plays (by Andrew Lloyd Weber, Charles Hart and Richard Stilgoe) that ran for over a quarter century in both London and New York, and a movie version of the play starring Gerard Butler and Emmy Rossum. But none of these adaptations delved into Erik's backstory---what was his life before the Paris Opera and what made this brilliant, enigmatic, and dangerous man hide from the world in a lair far below the Opera House? Author Susan Kay provides the answers in this highly-sought-after novel. Seller Inventory # E33995
Seller: BennettBooksLtd, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Seller Inventory # Q-0385302967