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NovelFrench · 1910Study guide · no full textSteady

The Phantom of the Opera

Gaston Leroux →

Written as a dossier of witness statements, which makes the melodrama feel reported.

Study guide

This work is still in copyright, so there is no full text on the page. What you get instead: the context, the cast, the ideas and the themes — enough to read it well, and to know exactly what to watch for in the first thirty pages.

“He is not dead, he is not alive, he is the Phantom.”

Now read the first page with all of this in mind.

The notes here are the map; the book is the journey.

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