Gaston Leroux’s first novel was serialised in the late 1890s, and with the 1907 publication of The Mystery of the Yellow Room he launched his career as a pioneer of the French detective novel. The Phantom of the Opera (1910) has been Leroux's best-known novel in the English-speaking world ever since the resounding success of the 1925 silent film version. It was translated by Mireille Ribière for Penguin.
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Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera, translated by Mireille Ribière (Penguin Classics, April 2012) |