The Phantom of the Opera
Jennifer Bassett
Oxford Bookworms LibraryLevel 1
A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett.
It is 1880, in the Opera House in Paris. Everybody is talking about the Phantom of the Opera, the ghost that lives somewhere under the Opera House. The Phantom is a man in black clothes. He is a body without a head, he is a head without a body. He has a yellow face, he has no nose, he has black holes for eyes. Everybody is afraid of the Phantom – the singers, the dancers, the directors, the stage workers…
But who has actually seen him?
JENNIFER BASSETT
The Phantom of the Opera
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
Do you believe in ghosts? Of course not. We like to talk about ghosts, and to tell stories about them, but we don’t really believe in them … do we?
In the Paris Opera House in 1880, strange things are happening. One of the dancers sees a shadow in a dark passage. It comes through a wall in front of her, and its face has no eyes. One of the stage workers sees a man in a black evening coat, but he has the head of a dead man, with a yellow face and no nose. People hear a voice in another room, but the room is empty.
It is the Phantom of the Opera …
For Richard
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Illustrated by: Martin Cottam
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