Phantom of the Opera, Complete Version

The Phantom of the Opera is a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux. It was first published as a serialisation in Le Gaulois 1909. Initially, the story sold very poorly upon publication in book form and was even out of print several times during the twentieth century it is overshadowed by the success of its various film and stage adaptations. The most notable of these were the 1925 film depiction, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical.