4/15/2023 0 Comments Phantom of the opera book pages![]() Second row: Three vintage French published paperbacks with the one on the right using what appears to be an artistic rendering of the mask worn by Claude Raines in the 1943 motion picture adaptation, which bring us to… ![]() Top row: Gaston Leroux an early French edition (1920) of the novel, the artwork of which has been repurposed for the current Penguin Classics edition. However, those scenes are surprisingly different when encountered on the pages collected between the covers presented here. The novel and its narrative have become one of those stories that everyone thinks they know, probably due to a number of spectacular scenes and set-pieces-the phantom’s unmaksing, the chandelier drop, etc-used in nearly every adaptation. Other adaptations for both stage and screen followed, but it was Andrew Lloyd Webber’s blockbuster musical that turned the novel and its eponymous character into a pop culture phenomenon the musical is now the longest-running show in Broadway history. He lived long enough to see the release of the 1925 Universal Pictures silent-film adaptation starring Lon Chaney. It is probably safe to assume that Gaston Leroux never envisioned the enormous and enduring success his potboiler thriller The Phantom of the Opera would go on to achieve.
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