Books author - "Gaston Leroux"

Description “When I die and am in Heaven,” Christine Daaé’s father said, “I will send the Angel of Music to you.” It is with these words still in her ears years later that Christine accepts the disembodied voice that speaks to her to claim that divine title, and to give her singing lessons within her dressing room at the Paris Opera, as the fulfillment of her beloved father’s promise. And when those lessons lead her to a performance that astonishes the whole city, who could doubt but that the

a skeleton frame. His eyes are so deep that you can hardly see the fixed pupils. You just see two big black holes, as in a dead man's skull. His skin, which is stretched across his bones like a drumhead, is not white, but a nasty yellow. His nose is so little worth talking about that you can't see it side-face; and THE ABSENCE of that nose is a horrible thing TO LOOK AT. All the hair he has is three or four long dark locks on his forehead and behind his ears."This chief scene-shifter was a

Gayety And Dynamite "Barinia, The Young Stranger Has Arrived." "Where Is He?" "Oh, He Is Waiting At The Lodge." "I Told You To Show Him To Natacha's Sitting-Room. Didn't You Understand Me, Ermolai?" "Pardon, Barinia, But The Young Stranger, When I Asked To Search Him, As You Directed, Flatly Refused To Let Me." "Did You Explain To Him That Everybody Is Searched Before Being Allowed To Enter, That It Is The Order, And That Even My Mother