Author(s): Pauline Francis

Children's Classics

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux was written in 1909. A young singer, Christine Daee, makes a triumphant debut at the Opera i and then disappears. What has happened to her, and could the mysterious Opera ghost be to blame? Christineis lover, Raoul de Chagny, spies a mysterious stranger shadowing her and decides to followi. This title is part of a wonderful new series that offers a quick way into a range of exciting stories. Fast-moving and accessible, each story is a shortened, dramatically illustrated version of the classic novel, which loses none of the strength and flavour of the original. Retold rather than abridged.