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Gaston Leroux

Born

in Paris, France

May 06, 1868

Died

April 15, 1927

Genre

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery

Influences

Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, Stendhal ...more

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Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux was a French journalist and author of detective fiction.

In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, 1910), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, such as the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical. It was also the basis of the 1990 novel Phantom by Susan Kay.

Leroux went to school in Normandy and studied law in Paris, graduating in 1889. He inherited millions of francs and lived wildly until he nearly reached bankruptcy. Then in 1890, he began working as a court reporter and theater critic for L'Écho de Paris. His most important journalism came when he began working as an ...more

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	The Phantom of the Opera 3.96 avg rating — 275,548 ratings — published 1910 — 130 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mystery of the Yellow Room (Joseph Rouletabille #1) 3.65 avg rating — 13,951 ratings — published 1907 — 964 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Le parfum de la dame en noir 3.51 avg rating — 1,558 ratings — published 1908 — 314 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Le Fauteuil hanté 3.45 avg rating — 454 ratings — published 1909 — 147 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Secret of the Night 3.42 avg rating — 264 ratings — published 1912 — 276 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Muppets Meet the Classics: The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, Owen Richardson (Illustrations) 3.80 avg rating — 206 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La poupée sanglante (La poupée sanglante, #1) 3.34 avg rating — 208 ratings — published 1923 — 116 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Il Fantasma dell'Opera by Gaston Leroux, Maurizio Grasso (Translator) 3.85 avg rating — 134 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La machine à assassiner (La poupée sanglante, #2) 3.46 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 1923 — 85 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Racconti Terrificanti 3.97 avg rating — 104 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Joseph Rouletabille (8 books)
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“If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

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“All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik)”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

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“Erik is not truly dead. He lives on within the souls of those who choose to listen to the music of the night.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

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August 2015 Revisit the Shelf Classic Poll

1932, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, 232 pages

23 votes, 17.6%

1954, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, 182 pages

22 votes, 16.8%

1891, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, 254 pagges

18 votes, 13.7%

1909, The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, 360 pages

15 votes, 11.5%

1965, Dune by Frank Herbert, 604 pages

13 votes, 9.9%

1814, Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, 507 pages

11 votes, 8.4%

1872, Around the World in Eighty Days & Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne, 252 pages

8 votes, 6.1%

1994, Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson, 460 pages

6 votes, 4.6%

1929, The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, 351 pages

6 votes, 4.6%

1951, The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk, 560 pages

3 votes, 2.3%

1851, The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 502 pages

3 votes, 2.3%

1985, Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry, 945 pages

3 votes, 2.3%

131 total votes

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