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(0)Gaston Leroux
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La Ópera de París se convierte en teatro de horrores en la más célebre obra del periodista y escritor de novelas detectivescas, Gaston Leroux. En un ambiente de novela gótica, este escenario deslumbrante esconde a un hombre -¿o un fantasma?- atormentado, que recordándonos la historia de la Bella y la Bestia, se enamora de un imposible. Para conseguir el amor de la inocente Christine, la lleva a su morada oscura, un laberinto de trampas y mazmorras,...
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The Phantom of the Opera (1910) is a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux. Originally serialized in Le Galois, the novel was inspired by legends revolving around the Paris Opera from the early nineteenth century. Originally, a journalist, Leroux turned to fiction after reading the works of Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Allan Poe. Despite its lack of success relative to Leroux's other novels, The Phantom of the Opera has become legendary through several...
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xix, 379 pages ; 24 cm
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Davis (More Deadly Than the Male, editor) makes a welcome addition to early English detective fiction anthologies. Unlike scholars who date the birth of the genre to Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," Davis starts with an earlier short story, "The Secret Cell" by Poe's nemesis, William Evans Burton. That tale remains enjoyable today, with its dramatic account of the search for a missing 17-year-old servant, who stood to inherit a fortune from...