Fantômas

By Allain, Marcel

Book Id: WPLBN0002953907
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File Size: 293.57 MB
Reproduction Date: 2010

Title:	Fantômas
Author:	Allain, Marcel
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Mystery, Adventure
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Fantômas
Historic Publication Date:	1915
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Allain, B. M., & Souvestre, P. (1915). Fantômas. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.cc/

Description
Fantômas is the first of 32 novels penned from 1911 to 1913 by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre. The title character is a ruthless thief and killer, a bloodthirsty successor to LeBlanc's Arsène Lupin. The first five novels were made into silent film serials. The character and the movies caught the eye of the French Surrealists who admired the primal violence of Fantômas, as well as his portrayal in the films, which are considered landmarks in French Cinema. In Fantômas , the Marquise de Langrune is savagely murdered and Inspector Juve, who is obsessed with capturing Fantômas, arrives to solve the murder. (Summary by Alan Winterrowd)

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Mystery, Adventure