3 books to know Paris
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Welcome to the3 Books To Knowseries, our idea is to help readers learn about fascinating topics through three essential and relevant books. These carefully selected works can be fiction, non-fiction, historical documents or even biographies. We will always select for you three great works to instigate your mind, this time the topic is:Paris
– Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo – The Ladies' Paradise by Émile Zola – The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston LerouxVictor Hugo began writing Notre-Dame de Paris in 1829, largely to make his contemporaries more aware of the value of the Gothic architecture, which was neglected and often destroyed to be replaced by new buildings or defaced by replacement of parts of buildings in a newer style. For instance, the medieval stained glass panels of Notre-Dame de Paris had been replaced by white glass to let more light into the church. This explains the large descriptive sections of the book, which far exceed the requirements of the story. A few years earlier, Hugo had already published a paper entitled Guerre aux Démolisseurs (War to the Demolishers) specifically aimed at saving Paris' medieval architecture. The Ladies' Paradise is the eleventh novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola. It was first serialized in the periodical Gil Blas and published in novel form by Charpentier in 1883. The novel is set in the world of the department store, an innovative development in mid-nineteenth century retail sales. Zola models his store after Le Bon Marché, which consolidated under one roof many of the goods hitherto sold in separate shops. The narrative details many of Le Bon Marché's innovations, including its mail-order business, its system of commissions, its in-house staff commissary, and its methods of receiving and retailing goods. The Phantom of the Opera is a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux. It was first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois from 23 September 1909, to 8 January 1910. It was published in volume form in late March 1910 by Pierre Lafitte and directed by Aluel Malinao. The novel is partly inspired by historical events at the Paris Opera during the nineteenth century and an apocryphal tale concerning the use of a former ballet pupil's skeleton in Carl Maria von Weber's 1841 production of Der Freischütz. It has been successfully adapted into various stage and film adaptations, most notable of which are the 1925 film depiction featuring Lon Chaney, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical. This is one of many books in the series 3 Books To Know. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the topics
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Authors
Notre-Dame de Paris
VOLUME I
BOOK FIRST
BOOK SECOND
BOOK THIRD
BOOK FOURTH
BOOK FIFTH
BOOK SIXTH
VOLUME II. BOOK SEVENTH
BOOK EIGHTH
BOOK NINTH
BOOK TENTH
BOOK ELEVENTH
The Ladies' Paradise
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
The Phantom of the Opera
Prologue
Chapter I Is it the Ghost?
Chapter II The New Margarita
Chapter III The Mysterious Reason
Chapter IV Box Five
Chapter V The Enchanted Violin
Chapter VI A Visit to Box Five
Chapter VII Faust and What Followed
Chapter VIII The Mysterious Brougham
Chapter IX At the Masked Ball
Chapter X Forget the Name of the Man's Voice
Chapter XI Above the Trap-Doors
Chapter XII Apollo's Lyre
Chapter XIII A Master-Stroke of the Trap-Door Lover
Chapter XIV The Singular Attitude of a Safety-Pin
Chapter XV Christine! Christine!
Chapter XVI Mme. Giry's Astounding Revelations. as to Her Personal Relations with the Opera Ghost
Chapter XVII The Safety-Pin Again
Chapter XVIII The Commissary, The Viscount and the Persian
Chapter XIX The Viscount and the Persian
Chapter XX In the Cellars of the Opera
Chapter XXI Interesting and Instructive Vicissitudes. of a Persian in the Cellars of the Opera
Chapter XXII In the Torture Chamber
Chapter XXIII The Tortures Begin
Chapter XXIV "Barrels! ... Barrels! ... Any Barrels to Sell?"
Chapter XXV The Scorpion or the Grasshopper: Which?
Chapter XXVI The End of the Ghost's Love Story
Epilogue
The Paris Opera House
About the Publisher
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Title Page
Introduction
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This episode considerably distracted the attention of the audience; and a goodly number of spectators, among them Robin Poussepain, and all the clerks at their head, gayly applauded this eccentric duet, which the scholar, with his shrill voice, and the mendicant had just improvised in the middle of the prologue.
Gringoire was highly displeased. On recovering from his first stupefaction, he bestirred himself to shout, to the four personages on the stage, “Go on! What the devil!—go on!”—without even deigning to cast a glance of disdain upon the two interrupters.
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