TY - BOOK AU - Leroux,Gaston TI - The phantom of the Opera SN - 0060809248 (pbk.) : AV - PQ2623.E6 F213 1987 U1 - 843/.912 19 PY - 1987/// CY - New York PB - Harper Perennial Library KW - Phantom of the Opera (Fictitious character) KW - Fiction KW - Composers KW - Opera KW - Paris (France) KW - Musical fiction KW - lcsh KW - Horror tales KW - gsafd N1 - Translation of: Le fantóme de l'Opéra; Reprint. Originally published: New York : Grosset & Dunlap, 1911 N2 - Classic Literature. Fiction. HTML:Christine is brought up by her itinerant musician father, whose death she mourns endlessly. She achieves a singing position in the Paris Opera line, where a mysterious voice teaches her to unleash her musical potential. The voice belongs to Erik, a deformed musical genius who lives in the opera house. As Christine's singing career takes off, her childhood friend Raoul begins to court her, and he and Erik fight jealously for Christine's hand ER -