The Phantom of the Opera

Informationen zum Autor David Coward writes widely on the history, literature, and culture of France. A regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement, London Review of Books, and national newspapers, he won the Scott-Moncrieff Prize for Translation in 1996. He is the author of A History of French Literature (Blackwell, 2002), and for Oxford World's Classics has translated and edited works by Dumas, Diderot, Sade, and Beaumarchais. Klappentext Leroux's classic Gothic melodrama, here freshly presented in a vivid new translation, with informative introduction and notes. The original novel behind Andrew Lloyd Webber's famous musical, The Phantom of the Opera tells of the masked Phantom whose obsessive love for Christine Daae sets in chain a series of terrifying events. Zusammenfassung Leroux's classic Gothic melodrama, here freshly presented in a vivid new translation, with informative introduction and notes. The original novel behind Andrew Lloyd Webber's famous musical, The Phantom of the Opera tells of the masked Phantom whose obsessive love for Christine Daaé sets in chain a series of terrifying events.

Product details

• Authors: Gaston Leroux
• Assisted by: David Coward (Translation), David (Emeritus Professor of French Coward (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.02.2012
• EAN: 9780199694570
• ISBN: 978-0-19-969457-0
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 200 mm x 18 mm
• Series: World's classics; Oxford World's Classics; World's classics; Oxford World's Classics; World's classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Fantasy, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Ghost, FICTION / Fantasy / General, Classic crime, Classic horror & ghost stories, Classic crime and mystery fiction, c 1900 to c 1909, Classic horror and ghost stories, Classic fiction: general and literary