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Erik - A Ghost's Origins

出版	Babelcube Inc, 2021-12-03
主題	Fiction / Fantasy / Epic
ISBN	16674203139781667420318
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=xY9SEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Every tragedy has a cause, every monster, its origins.
Everyone knows the story of the infamous Phantom of the Opera, who kills anyone who tries to stand in the way of his love for Christine. In 1909, Gaston Leroux wrote one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, which has been adapted several times into motion pictures and screenplays and reached its utmost popularity with Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical bearing the same title in 1986.
Few, however, know the origins of this "monster".
Erik is a young man who grew up in a travelling freakshow, exploited due to the severe disfigurement that affects his face. The owner of the human circus, Roland De La Mortre, exhibits the boy as if he were a beast, defining his appearance as 'diabolical' because of the yellowishdroopy skin that covers his almost skeletal face.
One day, a woman witnesses the sad spectacle. Pitying him, she approaches the boy and...
A tragic love story, full of action and adventure that will move you and answer the manyquestions of this epic novel.