Gaston Leroux

Gaston Leroux Is a French writer, he spent her childhood in a coastal village. He studied law and he worked as a writer in local newspapers, first in poetry and then as a dramatic critic. He traveled as a reporter for Sweden, Finland, England, Egypt, Korea, Morocco and Russia, I report the first stages of the revolution. Although his work had time to write four novels that were published as serials in newspapers of Paris. In 1907 he wrote the novel that became his first literary success: The Mystery of the Yellow Room. Leroux writea lot of horror novels including La Double Vie de Theophraste Longuet and La Reine du Sabbat. By 1909, he quit his newspaper job and devote himself entirely to writing. Leroux believed in ghostly beings in the afterlife. His most famous work is The Phantom of the Opera. During his last years of life enjoyed moderate fame. He died in 1927 at 59 years of age because of an infection.

Bibliography: Wikipedia

The Phantom of The Opera

This summer i read The Phantom of the Opera for my English lessons
Now I'm going to tell you a little summary about this book, let's begin.

This book tells the story of the Opera Ghost, with a white mask and eyes of fire and young opera singer, her name is Christine and she loves Raoul.
The Opera House was opened in the 1870s in Paris and the people said that there´s a Phantom inside, who see the performance in the Box 5.
The ghost is very angry because the manager sell his private box.
The real name of the ghost is Erik but everybody both him Opera Ghost or the Angel of Music. Erik lives in the cellars of the Opera House and sleeps in a coffin. He puts a mask because her face was bony with holes in the eyes, mouth and nouse.
The ghost loves one singer named Christine, but Christine loves Raoul.
The ghost one day take Chritine, but Raoul, with the aid of the Persian and the Police men, safe Christine to be with the ghost for always.
In the final of the story the Persian discover that Erik is dead because is a phantom and send a messege to Raoul and put: “Erik is dead”.
The author of this book is Gaston Leroux, but the book that I read is an adaptation by the editorial of the book.










Bibliography: The summary is from me and the picture is from google.

Night Without End

Night Without End

An airplane crash lands on the Greenland ice cap far from its usual route after flying in a seemingly erratic fashion. A scientific research team based near the crash site rescues the surviving passengers and takes them to their station. The team finds that one passenger and most of the flight crew are dead with one of the pilots to be shot in the back. The only means of contact with the outside world, a radio set, is destroyed in a seemingly accidental manner.

With not enough food for everyone and no hope of rescue, the leader of the scientific research team, Dr Mason, decides that they must set out for the nearest settlement.

They lift a lot of adventerures, because a group of criminals were founding them. But one day they manage to catch up the criminals near the shore where a trawler waits for the criminals. But the intervention of navy, on information from Captain Hillcrest, frightens off the trawler. The criminals are surrounded here and after a bitter hand to hand combat between the protagonists and the criminals, the mechanism and the hostages are rescued.

My favourite protagonist was DR. Mason because I liked his determination and his control of the situacion.

I liked the book, it is good, but it’s difficult for read and at the beginning I missed the weft.

Alistair MacLean, the son of a Scots Minister, was brought up in the Scottish Highlands. In 1941, at the age of eighteen, he joined the Royal Navy; two and a half years spent aboard a cruiser were to give him the background for 'HMS Ulysses', his first novel, the outstanding documentary novel on the war at sea. After the war he gained an English Honours degree at Glasgow University, and became a schoolmaster. In 1983, he was awarded a D. Litt. from the same university.

Maclean is the author of twenty-nine world bestsellers and recognised as an outstanding writer in his own genre. Many of his titles have been adapted for film - 'The Guns of the Navarone', 'Force Ten from Navarone', 'Where Eagles Dare' and 'Bear Island' are among the most famous.

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

In the summer of 1870, Basil Hallwars, an artist, is finishing the picture of his friend Dorian Gray. Dorian is young, handsome and innocent and he is delighted whith his beautiful, and spectacular portrait. But one day, when he meets cynical Lord Henry Wotton, his life changes. He meets a beautiful girl, she is poor but he loves she, but under Lord Henry's influence, he leave she and she  . Under Lord Henry's influence his life becomes more and more decadent, and his beautiful picture reflect what is happening to him. One day he kill a friend hen the picture changes a lot and then he dead and the picture return to his normal form.  This is one of Oscar Wilde's most popular books. Oscar Wilde was a very famous writer of England. This book is of Burglington Books.

The Fossil Thieff

The book starts with the school's bell ringing, but after Mrs Jarvis, the professor of the class 4b, says to the children of the class, that tomorrow must bring dinosaurs fossils because, will go a museum expert to the next day at school . Charlie, a child of the class 4b, is very excited because he has a lot of fossiles, but his favorite's is a dinosaur's tooth, that he found in his house. The next day, the expert, Mr Rex, what he looks like a dinosaur, he arrives and when he is looking all the fossils, it's time to go to eat, and  all go to eat. When they return the fossil of Charlie and Mr Rex are disappeared!!!. 
 Beth, Charlie's best friend, she thinks to ask to the receptionist of the museum and when they ask if she knows anything about Mr Rex she says that anybody called Mr Rex works in the museum. But Beth says Mr Rex looks like a dinosaur and the receptionist says to them, that they can find he on museum's market. Beth find a stall where it says "Precious stones and fossils around the world" and they find the fossil of Charlie, when a man like Mr Rex checks to them the stall. Beth thinks a plan for catch to Mr Rex and she calls Mrs Jarvis. Mrs Jarvis calls and says to Mr Rex that children have a lot of new fossils. When Mr Rex comes to class Beth and Charlie open his bag and find the dinosaur's tooth of Charlie and they call the police and they catch Mr Rex. Charlie donates the dinosaur's tooth to the museum for that all can see and admire it. And that is the end of The Fossil Thief.

I like the book. It has a lot of vocabulary and is good. I think it is a good book to read in English.
Ernest