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Gaston Leroux
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Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (6 May 1868, Paris, France – 15 April 1927) was a French journalist, detective, and novelist. 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'Echo de Paris. His most important journalism came when he began working as an international correspondent for the Paris newspaper Le Matin. In 1905 he was present at and covered the Russian Revolution. Another case he was present at involved the investigation and deep coverage of an opera house in Paris, later to become a ballet house. The basement consisted of a cell that held prisoners in the Paris Commune, which were the rulers of Paris through much of the Franco-Prussian war. He suddenly left journalism in 1907, and began writing fiction; in 1909, he made his own film company, Cinéromans. He first wrote a mystery novel entitled Le mystère de la chambre jaune (1908; The Mystery of the Yellow Room), starring the amateur detective Joseph Rouletabille. Leroux's contribution t
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01 - In Which We Begin Not to Understand
55202 - In Which Joseph Rouletabille Appears for the First Time
43306 - In the Heart of the Oak Grove
40404 - In the Bosom of Wild Nature
37507 - In Which Rouletabille Sets Out on an Expedition Under the Bed
33614 - I Expect the Assassin This Evening
33727a - In Which Joseph Rouletabille Appears in All His Glory
33809 - Reporter and Detective
32916 - Strange Phenomenon of the Dissociation of Matter
321003 - “A Man Has Passed Like a Shadow Through the Blinds”
32albums
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The Phantom of the Opera
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LibriVox Audiobooks
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The Phantom Of The Opera: abridged
Gaston Leoux: El Fantasma de la Ópera (Abridged)
Le Fantôme de l'Opéra
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The Mystery of the Yellow Room
The Phantom of the Opera (Unabridged)
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Phantom of the Opera
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Librivox: Phantom of the Opera, The (version 1) by Leroux, Gaston
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Le mystère de la chambre jaune
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The Classic Tales Podcast
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El Fantasma de la Ópera