Classic french novel, first published in 1910. According to Wikipedia: "Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (6 May 1868, Paris, France â 15 April 1927) was a French journalist and author of detective fiction. In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera (Le FantĂŽme de l'OpĂ©ra, 1910), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same na...