Long story short, if you haven't read it, do it now! Amazon calculates a product’s star ratings based on a machine learned model instead of a raw data average. We work hard to protect your security and privacy. I had no idea I was buying and A4 bounded copy of poorly put together pages. NO JOKE.
Under the Gypsies care and training, he develops into a highly skilled magician, illusionist, and ventriloquist. Be prepared for murder by hanging, frequent cries of terror from malicious "accidents", and suicide for just a smidgeon of what will "materialize". I’ve heard that he is famous for the locked room mysteries.‘The Phantom of the Opera’ is set in the Paris Opera House rumored to house a phantom who is an object of speculation and fear for the people working in the establishment. The prose is so simple, so readable, that the barest of essentials are there, in all their power and glory: the haunted house, the victim-lover, the victimizer-lover, the clandestine meetings, the haunted past, the switch-over of protagonists, the uncertainty caused by one elegant overflow of optical illusions, the Victorian conventions all intended to spook the hell out of a reader that's totally in awe of the way a classic story can be so expertly conveyed. It really is a great story. The frightened performers have seen the legendary Phantom (Ghost), claiming to have noticed a very ugly man, but well dressed in the passageway. I have seen the play (and loved it) and was always curious about the original novel, which, I'll say right now, is definitely worth reading. However you came about looking up this novel here on Amazon, I suggest you buy it, and you buy it quick. Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote.
The ghost is a very intriguing character because he is a genius and he is extremely ugly so he wears a mask everywhere and is very mysterious. 9.3 I'm so sorry that I waited so long because it was fantastic! Once you have it, you won't be able to put it down.
The story also ended in a way that I was not expecting which was much more interesting. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. It is interesting to see how the original story has been condensed and simplified in the musical version. Just as was true with the real-life Joseph Merrick, Erik is a brilliant self-educated man. My only criticism is that Gaston Leroux wrote the book in the first person, instead of telling the story through the words of a fictional character, which attracted a lot of criticism at the time and the book nearly vanished into total obscurity. Amazon Reviews. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations It gave it time, let myself grow older, cleaned the slate to have a fresh start, etc ... it just did not work. Leroux's Phantom-named ERIK- is part-Batman, part-James Bond, part-Beast (as in Beauty and the Beast), and a "dark twin" -if you will- to the Elephant Man (the true historical figure Joseph Merrick who was severely disfigured by a combination of neurofibromatosis type I and Proteus syndrome). The Phantom of the Opera (Word Cloud Classics) My only real complaint is on the character of Raoul who is often described as what I would call a "weenie" - crying alot and fulThis book was surprisingly good... a surprise because most books written around this time (I believe this was written in 1909) seem to be very boring and/or difficult to read. We spend 88 hours on researching and comparing 46 of popular models to determine the Best The Phantom Of The Opera Book Cover 2020 you can buy.
I suspect this is not a very good translation. Please try again So it's kind of a love triangle but it works out ok - trust me.