This semester my students read some graded readers, one of these is The Phantom of the Opera. Amanda, André and Tâmara did an excelente presentation last december, 06! Thanks guys! Your essay is great! Below there are some extracts from my students' essay:
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
About the author of the book
Gaston Leroux (186
8-1927), French mystery novelist, playwright and journalist best known for his Le Fantôme de l'opéra (1910, The Phantom of the Opera), in which a criminally insane recluse haunts a Paris opera house, and abducts a young and beautiful singer to his cellar retreat. The novel has been a source for several films and stage adaptations, including Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical version, first produced in 1987.
Gaston Leroux was born on May 6, 1868 in Paris as the son of a wealthy storeowner. Leroux was a highly intelligent child and began early on to develop a great passion for literature and the theatre. At a young age he was writing short stories and plays, and throughout college he was, in his words, “tormented
by the demon of literature.” He attended school in Normandy and studied law in Paris, receiving his degree in 1889. After inheriting nearly a million francs he spent most of his time drinking and gambling. Finding his money gone, Leroux started to work as a theater critic and reporter for L'Écho de Paris. By 1890 Leroux had become a full-time journalist. From 1909 Leroux devoted himself entirely to writing, focusing on plays and popular novels of mystery and detection. (READ MORE HERE...)
Gaston Leroux (186
8-1927), French mystery novelist, playwright and journalist best known for his Le Fantôme de l'opéra (1910, The Phantom of the Opera), in which a criminally insane recluse haunts a Paris opera house, and abducts a young and beautiful singer to his cellar retreat. The novel has been a source for several films and stage adaptations, including Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical version, first produced in 1987.Gaston Leroux was born on May 6, 1868 in Paris as the son of a wealthy storeowner. Leroux was a highly intelligent child and began early on to develop a great passion for literature and the theatre. At a young age he was writing short stories and plays, and throughout college he was, in his words, “tormented
by the demon of literature.” He attended school in Normandy and studied law in Paris, receiving his degree in 1889. After inheriting nearly a million francs he spent most of his time drinking and gambling. Finding his money gone, Leroux started to work as a theater critic and reporter for L'Écho de Paris. By 1890 Leroux had become a full-time journalist. From 1909 Leroux devoted himself entirely to writing, focusing on plays and popular novels of mystery and detection. (READ MORE HERE...)Plot Summary
Preface
In the Preface to The Phantom of the Opera, the book's narrator tells of the methods he used to research the legend of the phantom. Writing roughly thirty years after the events conveyed in the novel, he tells of his research in the library at the Paris Opera house; his interviews with people who were present at the time; his reliance on the memoirs of one of the opera's directors at that time; and his own study of the opera house.
Chapters
The firsts chapters take place on the night that the old opera directors are retiring and transferring the directorship to Armand Moncharmin and Firmin Richard. While the performers are preparing for the night's show, several of the dancers claim to have seen the phantom. In the basement, Joseph Buquet, the chief stagehand, is found hanged. (READ MORE HERE...)
Preface
In the Preface to The Phantom of the Opera, the book's narrator tells of the methods he used to research the legend of the phantom. Writing roughly thirty years after the events conveyed in the novel, he tells of his research in the library at the Paris Opera house; his interviews with people who were present at the time; his reliance on the memoirs of one of the opera's directors at that time; and his own study of the opera house.
Chapters
The firsts chapters take place on the night that the old opera directors are retiring and transferring the directorship to Armand Moncharmin and Firmin Richard. While the performers are preparing for the night's show, several of the dancers claim to have seen the phantom. In the basement, Joseph Buquet, the chief stagehand, is found hanged. (READ MORE HERE...)
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