The Phantom of the Opera is a novel by French author Gaston Leroux. It tells the story of a beautiful opera singer who becomes the obsession of a mysterious, masked musical genius living in the catacombs beneath the Paris Opera House.

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Prologue

I: Is It the Ghost?

II: The New Margarita

III: The Mysterious Reason

IV: Box Five

V: The Enchanted Violin

VI: A Visit to Box Five

VII: Faust and What Followed

VIII: The Mysterious Brougham

IX: At the Masked Ball

X: Forget the Name of the Man’s Voice

XI: Above the Trap-Doors

XII: Apollo’s Lyre

XIII: A Masterstroke of the Trap-Door Lover

XIV: The Singular Attitude of a Safety-Pin

XV: Christine! Christine!

XVI: Mme. Giry’s Astounding Revelations as to Her Personal Relations with the Opera Ghost

XVII: The Safety-Pin Again

XVIII: The Commissary, the Viscount and the Persian

XIX: The Viscount and the Persian

XX: In the Cellars of the Opera

XXI: Interesting and Instructive Vicissitudes of a Persian in the Cellars of the Opera

XXII: In the Torture Chamber

XXIII: The Tortures Begin

XXIV: “Barrels! … Barrels! … Any Barrels to Sell?”

XXV: The Scorpion or the Grasshopper: Which?

XXVI: The End of the Ghost’s Love Story

Epilogue

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The Phantom of the Opera