The Palais Garnier really does have an underground lake, which is still used today to train Parisian firefighters to swim in the dark. Some of the story elements that might seem like fictional embellishments are actually true.
It’s inspired in part by legends and historical events surrounding the real Palais Garnier. Phantom is set at the Palais Garnier opera house, and tells the story of a mysterious masked man who haunts the building and his growing obsession with Christine, a young soprano.
He was reasonably successful by 1909, having already published six novels when Phantom made its debut. Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle, Leroux began writing mysteries. By 1907, he was on solid enough financial footing that he left journalism to become a full-time novelist. He worked for several years as a crime reporter and theater critic. Leroux had studied to be a lawyer, but after gambling away his inheritance, he needed a more steady and reliable income, so he turned to reporting. Installments continued to appear through January 1910, and the novel was first published in book form in March 1910. The Phantom of the Opera has become the source for numerous adaptations, including the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Tony Award-winning musical.On September 23, 1909, the first installment of Gaston Leroux’s novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (The Phantom of the Opera) was published in the Paris newspaper Le Gaulois. First published in 1910, the Phantom’s obsessive and consuming love for the beautiful young chorus girl Christine has captivated readers, film goers and musical theater fanatics for over 100 years. Modern audiences are well acquainted with Gaston Leroux’s infamous Phantom of the Opera, the tale of Erik, a horrifically disfigured man who lives in the underground beneath the Paris Opera House, where his creative genius mingles – and festers – with madness. An exceptional rarity of this cornerstone work.
The dust jacket design with the Phantom on the stairwell and not the bell tower on the front panel one of only three total examples of the book known to have retained its dust jacket. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket. Illustrated by Andre Castaigne with one single-page and four double-page inserted plates with color illustrations. Octavo, original cloth, publishers tissue guard. New York, Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1911.įirst edition with the printer’s imprint “Press of Braunworth & Co.
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