The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux REVIEW

Should this novel deserve to be read as widely as other pop culture classics such as Dracula, Frankenstein, and Sherlock Holmes? Or should the phantom be put to sleep forever?

The novel is available to read on Project Gutenberg - here it is in English:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/175
And here in the original French:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62215

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