Gaston Leroux (1868–1927)
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Gaston Leroux is best known as the creator of the 1911 novel, The Phantom of the Opera, about a masked figure who haunts the hidden parts of the Paris Opera House. The novel appeared first in serial installments a year before publication, ultimately grew into several movie versions, and later visa mer became an Tony Award-winning Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. Leroux was born in Paris in 1868. The only child of financially well-off parents, he moved easily into a clerk job in a law office. While working there, he wrote essays and short stories, many of which were accepted by publishers. This fired his enthusiasm, and he became a full-time reporter/writer in 1890. Law experience covering famous cases and theater reviews fueled his writing career, but it was his news reporter job that took him around the world at the turn of the century, providing details for his novels. Leroux wrote several mystery and fantasy novels, including the well-received The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1907) and The Man Who Came Back from the Dead (1912). Leroux also helped pioneer the character of the amateur detective who solves crime, so commonly seen today in movies and television. Gaston Leroux continued to write until his death on April 16, 1927. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av Gaston Leroux
Lire et s'entraîner : Gaston Leroux : Le Fantôme de l'Opéra [book + sound recording] (2001) — Writer — 15 exemplar
The Locked Room Mysteries (Four Just Men; The Mystery of the Yellow Room; The Hollow Man) 14 exemplar
Les Chefs-d'oeuvre de Gaston leroux en 13 volumes: - Rouletabille volume 4 - Le château noir. (1970) 8 exemplar
Oeuvres : Le Fantôme de l'opéra. La Reine du sabbat Les Ténébreuses La mansarde en or (1984) 8 exemplar
Box O Fantasma da Ópera 8 exemplar
Lire et s'entraîner : Gaston Leroux : Le Mystère de la Chambre Jaune [book + sound recording] (2003) — Writer — 4 exemplar
50 Classic Gothic Works You Should Read 3 exemplar
The Collected Works of Gaston Leroux: The Complete Works PergamonMedia (Highlights of World Literature) (2015) 3 exemplar
The Phantom of the Opera 3 exemplar
Reading & Training : Gaston Leroux : The phantom of the opera [book + sound recording] (2003) — Writer — 2 exemplar
The Masked Man 2 exemplar
Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera, Annotated and Illustrated (Oldstyle Tales' Gothic Novels) (Volume… (2017) 2 exemplar
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA [The Phantom of the Opera ] BY LeRoux, Gaston(Author)Paperback 12-Jan-1988 2 exemplar
La Bataille invisible - Aventures effroyables de M. Herbert de Renich - Tome II (French Edition) (2013) 2 exemplar
Horror omnibus 2 exemplar
THE ADVENTURES OF ROULETABILLE: FIRST TRILOGY. The Mystery of the Yellow Room, The Perfume of the Lady in Black, The… (2015) 2 exemplar
Invasionen 2 exemplar
Äraneetud aukoht : [romaan] 2 exemplar
Sangue sulla neva: romanzo 2 exemplar
Fantom opery 2 exemplar
Les Ténébreuses Tome 1 : La Fin d'un monde 1 exemplar
Η στοιχειωμένη θέση 1 exemplar
Rouletabille y los Bohemios 1 exemplar
La Reine du Sabbat 1 exemplar
Le Coeur Cambriolé 1 exemplar
Le Parfum de la Dame en Noire 1 exemplar
Missing Men - The Return of Cheri-Bibi 1 exemplar
Rouletabille chez le Tsar Annoté 1 exemplar
The Man with the Black Feather (Mint Editions (Crime, Thrillers and Detective Work)) (2021) 1 exemplar
Rouletabille chez Krupp Annoté 1 exemplar
Juodoji pilis 1 exemplar
Phantom of the Opera 1 exemplar
SECRETUL LUI TOTH 1 exemplar
Phantom of the opera, secret of the night 1 exemplar
La maison des juges 1 exemplar
Operaens Hemmelighed 1 exemplar
THREE NOVEL COLLECTION: The Double Life; Balaoo; The Bride of the Sun (Timeless Wisdom Collection) (2017) 1 exemplar
Il mistero della camera gialla. Il profumo della dama in nero. Il fantasma dell'Opera (1907) 1 exemplar
Il Figlio di due razze 1 exemplar
Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (Tome 1). D'après l'oeuvre de Gaston Leroux: D'après l'œuvre de Gaston Leroux (2012) 1 exemplar
Le Secret de la boîte à thé 3/3 1 exemplar
Le Roi Mystère 2/3 1 exemplar
Le fantôme de l'Opéra 1/3 1 exemplar
Ära neetud aukoht 1 exemplar
Not' Olympe 1 exemplar
L'auberge épouvantable 1 exemplar
Romans fantastiques. Tome 1 : Le fantôme de l'opéra - L'homme qui revient de loin. Robert… 1 exemplar
The Phantom of the Opera - 4 Short Stories By Gaston Leroux (Fantasy and Horror Classics) (2011) 1 exemplar
Skrivnost rumene sobe 1 exemplar
Rouletabille / Gaston Leroux 1 exemplar
Rouletabille chez le tsar 1 exemplar
Rouletabille chez les bohémiens. Tome 2: La pieuvre (Editions Pierre Lafitte, 1923, EO) (1923) 1 exemplar
Confitou: Roman historique de la Première Guerre mondiale (Œuvres de la Grande Guerre t. 1) (French… (2015) 1 exemplar
Upiór w operze 1 exemplar
A Dama de Negro 1 exemplar
THE ADVENTURES OF JOSEPH ROULETABILLE: The Mystery of the Yellow Room & The Secret of the Night: One of the First… (2017) 1 exemplar
Gaston Leroux - Collected Works 1 exemplar
1988 1 exemplar
Le mystère de la chambre jaune Lecture - niveau 3 B1 (Découverte classique) (French Edition) (2019) 1 exemplar
The Haunted Chair 1 exemplar
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Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown: A Treasury of Bizarre Tales Old and New (1993) — Bidragsgivare — 194 exemplar
The Phantom of the Opera: The Original 1987 London Cast Recording (1988) — Original book — 130 exemplar
The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall [2011 TV presentation] (2011) — Original book — 95 exemplar
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: The Greatest Detective Stories: 1837-1914 (2019) — Bidragsgivare — 23 exemplar
Murder on the Menu: Cordon Bleu Stories of Crime and Mystery, Volume 2 (1993) — Bidragsgivare — 20 exemplar
The Ghouls Book One - The Stories Behind The Classic Horror Films (1974) — Bidragsgivare — 12 exemplar
Weird Tales Volume 19 Number 2, February 1932 — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Weird Tales Volume 14 Number 2, August 1929 — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
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- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Leroux, Gaston Louis Alfred
- Födelsedag
- 1868-05-06
- Avled
- 1927-04-15
- Begravningsplats
- Cimetiére du Château, Nice, France
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- Frankrijk
- Födelseort
- Paris, France
- Dödsort
- Nice, France
- Dödsorsak
- uremia
- Bostadsorter
- Paris, France
Nice, France - Utbildning
- Faculté de droit de Paris (Licence, Droit, 18 89))
Lycée de Caen, Calvados (Baccalauréat, 18 86)
Collège d'Eu, Seine-Maritime (1880) - Yrken
- journalist
theater critic
novelist
court reporter - Relationer
- Leblanc, Alfred Gaston (Fils)
- Organisationer
- Société des Cinéromans, Société de production cinématographique, Nice (Fondateur, 19 18)
La Matin, Journal (Chroniqueur judiciaire, 18 94 | 19 01, Grand reporter, 19 01
L'écho de Paris (Chroniqueur judiciare, 18 91| 18 94)
Barreau d'avocat, Paris (18 90 | 18 94) - Priser och utmärkelser
- Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur (1902)
- Kort biografi
- Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (6 May 1868[1] – 15 April 1927) 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, notably the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical. His 1907 novel The Mystery of the Yellow Room is one of the most celebrated locked-room mysteries
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Phantom of the Opera By Gaston Leroux Sep 2021 LTER i Reviews of Early Reviewers Books (september 2021)
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The Phantom of the Opera: The Original Novel av Gaston Leroux
Eh I don’t think I’d recommend it anytime soon. I wasn’t a big fan of the writing style it didn’t engage me in the way I wanted it to. Kind of drawn out, although I did like the conclusion. I could definitely imagine it as a better opera or play adaptation than it is a book alone, especially if they make it as engaging as I would hope (keeping the 5th box empty, etc), and going along with the story as if it was an opera, where the audience is more a part of the performance than mere spectators. The one redeeming factor that bumped it from 1 stars to 2 stars is the setting. Placing this story in an opera house in the late 1800s was really interesting. I enjoyed learning about the inner workings of an opera house and seeing how the author uses every aspect of the opera house management, architecture, and performances as important pieces of the story. I can tell a lot of thought went into weaving the opera house into the story and I was really impressed by it, it makes me want to go to an opera and get a tour of an opera house, especially it’s underground.… (mer)
"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."
The story of 'The Phantom of the Opera' is well known thanks to popular culture with its movie and stage adaptations but Gaston Leroux's classic gothic novel is less well known.
The book is set in a Parisian opera house that is “haunted” by a mysterious and alluring ghost. The phantom falls in love with young soprano Christine Daaè and this is a story about romance, obsession and mystery.
Unlike the musical the novel is more about the relationship between Christine and her childhood friend Viscount Raoul de Chagny than with the phantom. The book goes into more depth about Christine’s childhood with her violinist father and the phantom’s backstory. As a child Christine had been told stories by her father about an 'Angel of Music' who he will send to her when he dies. When she first hears the voice of the phantom she initially thinks that he is the 'Angel' and befriends him but soon comes to realise that he has more ominous intentions.
This book was very detailed and at some points extremely complicated. The author paints himself as an investigative journalist using memoirs as his evidence making him an unreliable witness. There are some very detailed descriptions of the Opera house's architecture and there are some boring parts particularly in the middle, but most of the time the book kept me engaged. There are some heavy psychological elements but what I wasn't expecting was the quite comic segment concerning the two managers and the missing money. However, I felt that the book was somewhat let down by the ending which was just too neat IMHO but overall I feel that it deserves to be more widely read.
"Erik is not truly dead. He lives on within the souls of those who choose to listen to the music of the night."… (mer)
The story of 'The Phantom of the Opera' is well known thanks to popular culture with its movie and stage adaptations but Gaston Leroux's classic gothic novel is less well known.
The book is set in a Parisian opera house that is “haunted” by a mysterious and alluring ghost. The phantom falls in love with young soprano Christine Daaè and this is a story about romance, obsession and mystery.
Unlike the musical the novel is more about the relationship between Christine and her childhood friend Viscount Raoul de Chagny than with the phantom. The book goes into more depth about Christine’s childhood with her violinist father and the phantom’s backstory. As a child Christine had been told stories by her father about an 'Angel of Music' who he will send to her when he dies. When she first hears the voice of the phantom she initially thinks that he is the 'Angel' and befriends him but soon comes to realise that he has more ominous intentions.
This book was very detailed and at some points extremely complicated. The author paints himself as an investigative journalist using memoirs as his evidence making him an unreliable witness. There are some very detailed descriptions of the Opera house's architecture and there are some boring parts particularly in the middle, but most of the time the book kept me engaged. There are some heavy psychological elements but what I wasn't expecting was the quite comic segment concerning the two managers and the missing money. However, I felt that the book was somewhat let down by the ending which was just too neat IMHO but overall I feel that it deserves to be more widely read.
"Erik is not truly dead. He lives on within the souls of those who choose to listen to the music of the night."… (mer)
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- Även av
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- Medlemmar
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- Popularitet
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- Betyg
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- Recensioner
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- ISBN
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