Gaston Leroux

The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1908) is a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux. Originally serialized in L'Illustration from September to November 1907, The Mystery of the Yellow Room marked the first appearance of popular character Joseph Rouletabille, a reporter and part-time sleuth who features in several of Leroux's novels. Originally a journalist, Leroux turned to fiction after reading the works of Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Allan Poe. Often...

The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1908) is a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux. The Perfume of the Lady in Black marked the second appearance of popular character Joseph Rouletabille, a reporter and part-time sleuth who features in several of Leroux's novels. Originally a journalist, Leroux turned to fiction after reading the works of Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Allan Poe. Often considered one of the best mysteries of all time, the novel has been...

The Man With the Black Feather (1909) is a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux. Originally, a journalist, Leroux turned to fiction after reading the works of Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Allan Poe. His most famous work, The Phantom of the Opera, has become legendary through several adaptations for film, theater, and television, including Andrew Lloyd Webber's celebrated 1886 Broadway musical of the same name. Walking into his office one morning,...

Une édition de référence de Le fauteuil hanté de Gaston Leroux, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques. « Une tempête sembla entourer la Coupole… La vague populaire battit les murs, fit claquer des portes… des soldats, des gardes reculèrent jusque dans la salle… Et l'on commença de distinguer, parmi tant de tumulte, une sorte de grondement particulier. C'était comme un infini gémissement lugubre. M. Hippolyte...

Mezcla de romanticismo y novela gótica, esta intensa historia de desamor, música y deformidades ha dado origen a multitud de adaptaciones, donde vemos con predominancia una lucha por el amor, en la cual el misterio y la intriga acompañan al lector. En esta novela, Erik, un genio con su rostro desfigurado, quien vive en los pasadizos subterráneos de la Ópera de París, trata de ganarse el amor de la cantante Christine Daae. La intriga sobre El...

The Phantom of the Opera is Gaston Leroux's masterpiece of horror and romance. Written in serial form from 1909-1910 for Le Gaulois, it was released as a novel in 1910 and translated into English the following year. An immediate publishing sensation, the book was quickly adapted for the stage and screen, most famously for the 1925 silent film starring Lon Cheney and then in 1986 by Andrew Lloyd Weber, which became the longest running musical in Broadway...

The Adventures of Joseph Rouletabille (2021) is a trilogy of novels by French writer Gaston Leroux. Originally, a journalist, Leroux turned to fiction after reading the works of Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Allan Poe. This collection compiles the first three novels in his series featuring Joseph Rouletabille, a reporter and amateur detective, whose crime solving abilities gain him a reputation throughout Europe. Joseph Rouletabille is more than meets...

Une édition de référence d'Un homme dans la nuit de Gaston Leroux, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques. « À toute vapeur, le train filait dans la Prairie. Il avait quitté les rives du Missouri, laissé derrière lui les faubourgs manufacturiers d'Omaha City et dirigeait sa course folle vers Cheyenne, traversant dans toute sa largeur, de l'est à l'ouest, l'État de Nebraska. Le train se trouvait alors dans la...

Quand un jeune Français se rebelle contre l'armée allemande Le jeune Confitou, fils d'un père français et d'une mère allemande, et plutt enclin à suivre l'exemple de sa mère, change totalement de sentiments lorsque les Allemands arrivent. Il va même prendre les armes pour trahir sa mère et son oncle, officier allemand, et aider à la libération de son village… Ce court roman, paru en feuilletons quotidiens, inaugure les textes « de...

Excerpt: "As the liner steamed into Callao Roads, and long before it had anchored, it was surrounded by a flotilla of small boats. A moment later, deck, saloons and cabins were invaded by a host of gesticulating and strong-minded boatmen, whose badges attested that they were duly licensed to carry off what passengers and luggage they could. They raged impotently, however, round Francis Montgomery, F.R.S., who sat enthroned on a pile of securely locked...