Alexander Teixeira De Mattos Translator: 3 books

This edition features • a linked Table of Contents and linked Footnotes CONTENTS (abridged list) PART THE FIRST CHAPTER I Origin and Character of these Recollections—General aspect of the period preceding the Revolution of 1848—Preliminary symptoms of the Revolution CHAPTER II The Banquets—Sense...

The Phantom of the Opera (in French, Le Fantome de l'Opera) is a French novel by Gaston Leroux. It was first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois from September 23, 1909 to January 8, 1910. Some believe it to have been inspired by George du Maurier's Trilby. Trilby is based on real events...

It was ten o'clock at night and it was hours since a living soul had appeared in the streets of Saint Martin des Bois. Not a light showed in the windows, for the shutters were hermetically closed. The village lay as though deserted. The inhabitants had locked themselves in long before twilight; and nothing would induce them to unbolt their doors before dawn."- Exerpted from "Balao"