The Phantom of the Opera: A Mystery of the Paris Opera
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 99 full-page plates by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Jean Béraud and Gustave Caillebotte. Beneath the Paris Opera lie five cellars, an underground lake, and a tenant whom the management pays not to think about. Leroux was a crime reporter first, and he built the novel as an investigation: witness statements, an inquest tone, and real machinery of the Palais Garnier, which does have a lake. The result is less a horror story than the strangest love triangle in French fiction. Ninety-nine plates of Paris backstage life by Renoir and Degas, from ballet rehearsals to the costume ball, run through the book like the opera house's own corridors.
Complete and unabridged, with 99 full-page plates by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Jean Béraud and Gustave Caillebotte. Beneath the Paris Opera lie five cellars, an underground lake, and a tenant whom the management pays not to think about. Leroux was a crime reporter first, and he built the novel as an...
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Gaston Leroux (1868–1927) was a French journalist and novelist. He reported for Le Matin before turning to fiction, writing detective novels featuring the reporter Joseph Rouletabille. His works include The Phantom of the Opera and The Secret of the Night.
Gaston Leroux (1868–1927) was a French journalist and novelist. He reported for Le Matin before turning to fiction, writing detective novels featuring the reporter Joseph Rouletabille. His works include The Phantom of the Opera and The Secret of the Night.
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