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Hi @batherik -- thank you for your question.

I believe this is an international issue with Amazon, which appears to have limited copies of the unabridged French edition of Gaston Leroux's Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, which is published by Livre de Poche. Livre de Poche bases their text on the 1910 First Edition of Le Fantôme de l'Opéra published by Pierre Lafitte et Cie.

I also checked Amazon France and Amazon UK, they have the same issue. On some Amazon sites, you can purchase the Livre de Poche edition of Leroux's novel used, but they have limited supplies of new copies. Here is the Livre de Poche edition on Amazon France, where they have limited new copies. And here is the Livre de Poche edition on Amazon UK, where they still appear to have some copies available new.

This may also be a distribution issue with Livre de Poche. When I checked the Livre de Poche website for Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, some of their French retailers appear to be low on copies of Leroux's novel as well.

But as to your question -- unfortunately, the edition you purchased from Amazon is abridged, despite its claims to be an "Édition originale et intégrale".

I am guessing the cover of the book you bought from Amazon looks like this?

If your edition of Le Fantôme de l'Opéra looks like this, it is abridged and heavily edited. It is NOT the original text.

This issue appears to stem from the fact that Le Fantôme de l'Opéra is no longer in copyright in France. French copyright states that published works are copyright protected for the life of the author plus 70 years (or 100 years if the author died in combat serving France).

People are taking advantage of this by publishing abridged and highly edited versions of Gaston Leroux's original French text, and then lying and calling the text "originale et intégrale".

Now, you can still buy the Livre de Poche unabridged edition of Le Fantôme de l'Opéra on Amazon US, but it is currently only available in limited quantity new, or else you can buy it used.

Here is the link to purchase the Livre de Poche edition on Amazon US new, but it is in limited availability.

And here is the link to purchase the Livre de Poche edition on Amazon US used.

The important thing is to verify the ISBN, no matter which website you're purchasing from.

The ISBN you're looking for is:

ISBN-10: 2253009504

ISBN-13: 9782253009504

Now, Livre de Poche is the edition of Leroux's novel that the Palais Garnier giftshop sells. When I was there in 2015, the cover of the Livre de Poche edition that I bought looked like this:

I have also purchased a Livre de Poche edition with this cover (this is the cover that Amazon is currently selling used):

I also have a Livre de Poche edition with this cover:

Now, here are my recommendations for reading the unabridged First Edition text of Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, if you can't get it through Amazon:

1) I recommend looking for a used copy of Leroux's novel through an online used books retailer, like ABE Books. Here's a link to the Livre de Poche edition on ABE Books.

2) Do an ISBN search through a site like BookFinder.com, which will show you all the online retailers that are selling the Livre de Poche edition used. Again, the ISBN you're looking for is ISBN-10: 2253009504, ISBN-13: 9782253009504.

3) Or, if you don't want to purchase through used bookstores like ABE, you can also read Le Fantôme de l'Opéra for free online through Project Gutenberg.

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Thanks!! You got any recommendations? My friend already said she wants to take me to Powell's!

@batherik Powell’s is one heck of a store. You’ll need at least one hour there! XD

If you wanna copy what I did on this trip, you can also visit: 

Pioneer Courthouse Square

Mill Ends Park (smallest city park in the world)

The Waterfront/Hawthorne Bridge

Hawthorne St (great street to walk down if you wanna casually pop into thrift shops & quirky boutiques)

Reed College

Casual Eating

Voodoo Doughnut

Salt & Straw (Ice cream)

Tao of Tea

Maurice (lunch cafe)

Restaurants (Will need reservation unless going at off-peak hour)

Pok Pok

Chiang Mai

Apizza Scholls

Kenny & Zuke’s Delicatessen (doesn’t take reservations)

Other things that are awesome that I’ve done before but not on this trip:

Japanese Tea Garden

Lan Su Chinese Garden

Ground Kontrol (video game arcade)

Pittock Mansion

So much of that money is the flight.. the hotels are cheaper the longer you stay.. like after you can afford day 1 it doesn’t take long to affors day 2

Thanks, honey bunches of oats!!!