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The story of a man named Erik, an eccentric, physically deformed genius who terrorizes the Opera Garnier in Paris. He builds his home beneath it and takes the love of his life, a beautiful soprano, under his wing.
Language: English
Published in: 1910
Word count: 85,149 words (≈ about 6 hours)
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org
Copyright: This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA.
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Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:33:26 +0200
I almost hate to admit how much I love this book. Although unfortunately it's not available as an e-book (as far as I know) the recent translation by Leonard Wolf is MUCH better than this public-domain one. But worth reading the old one too, despite its occasional ridiculously dated expressions.