The influences behind The Last Days of Disco

31 works across 28 centuries, back to Hebrew Bible (Genesis, Psalms) and Iliad.

1998

The Last Days of Disco

Film by Whit Stillman

American independent cinema. United States. In English.

Whit Stillman's 1998 comedy of manners follows two young Manhattan publishing assistants, Alice and Charlotte, and the men around them at an exclusive disco in the early 1980s as the scene collapses. It completes the loose trilogy begun with Metropolitan and Barcelona and joins Austen-style social comedy to an elegy for a vanished nightlife.
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1990

Metropolitan

Film by Whit Stillman

American independent cinema. United States. In English.

Stillman's first film, about a group of Upper East Side debutantes and escorts during Christmas deb season, told almost entirely through talk.

What it handed down

To The Last Days of Disco (1998)

Structural model, well documented.

Last Days is the third film of Stillman's loose trilogy and reuses Metropolitan's method: a small set of articulate, privileged young people whose arguments about manners and morals carry the plot. Chris Eigeman returns as the same kind of sardonic, self-justifying talker, and characters from the earlier films reappear briefly.
Where it came from
- Mansfield Park, Jane Austen 1814 follow this thread
- My Night at Maud's (Ma nuit chez Maud), film by Éric Rohmer 1969 follow this thread
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1977

Saturday Night Fever

Film by John Badham

New Hollywood. United States. In English.

Drama about a Brooklyn paint-store clerk who lives for weekend nights at a local disco.

What it handed down

To The Last Days of Disco (1998)

Thematic kinship, probable.

Saturday Night Fever fixed the popular image of disco on screen, a working-class Brooklyn version Stillman's film answers with the Manhattan elite club of yuppies and admen. Last Days takes up the earlier film's idea of the dance floor as the center of young lives, then stages that world's end.
Where it came from
- Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night, Nik Cohn 1976 follow this thread
- West Side Story, film by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins 1961 follow this thread
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Tribal Rites of the New Saturday NightNik Cohn

1976

Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night

Nik Cohn

New Journalism. United States. Written in English.

New York magazine article on Brooklyn disco-goers, later admitted by Cohn to be largely invented.

What it handed down

To Saturday Night Fever (1977)

Direct source, well documented.

Producer Robert Stigwood bought the rights to Cohn's New York magazine article, and the film's Tony Manero is based on its central figure, Vincent, a Bay Ridge youth who lives for Saturday nights at the disco. The article's portrait of dead-end jobs redeemed by the dance floor became the film's premise.

Where it came from

The line stops here: cohn said he based the central figure on a London mod he had known, not on a literary source.

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1969

My Night at Maud's (Ma nuit chez Maud)

Film by Éric Rohmer

French New Wave. France. In French.

Third of Rohmer's Six Moral Tales, in which a Catholic engineer spends a talk-filled night with a divorcée, arguing about Pascal and love.

What it handed down

To Metropolitan (1990)

Stylistic influence, probable.

Reviewers compared Metropolitan to Rohmer's Moral Tales, and Stillman has spoken of admiring Rohmer's talk-driven films. Like Maud's, Metropolitan builds its drama from long, witty conversations in apartments where ideas about virtue and love substitute for action.
Where it came from
- Pensées, Blaise Pascal 1670 follow this thread
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- Stream HBO Max, The Criterion Channel
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1961

West Side Story

Film by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins

Late Classic Hollywood. United States. In English.

Film of the Broadway musical that resets Romeo and Juliet among rival street gangs on Manhattan's West Side.

What it handed down

To Saturday Night Fever (1977)

Thematic kinship, probable.

Commentators have long noted parallels: a hero named Tony, dance as the expression of urban youth, ethnic street rivalry, and a climax tied to a bridge over New York water. The debt is generally read as an echo of the earlier musical rather than a documented model.
Where it came from
- Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare c. 1595 (printed 1597) follow this thread
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1955

Lady and the Tramp

Film by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson and Hamilton Luske

Classic Hollywood animation. United States. In English.

Disney animated romance between a pampered cocker spaniel and a streetwise stray.

What it handed down

To The Last Days of Disco (1998)

Direct source, well documented.

In one of the film's best-known scenes, characters argue over Lady and the Tramp, one denouncing the Tramp as a smooth cad who seduces a sheltered girl and teaches children to admire the wrong kind of man. The Disney film becomes a mirror for the romantic choices Alice and Charlotte face with the club's men.
Where it came from
- Happy Dan, the Whistling Dog, Ward Greene 1937 follow this thread
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- Stream Disney+
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Happy Dan, the Whistling DogWard Greene

1937

Happy Dan, the Whistling Dog

Ward Greene

Interwar American magazine fiction. United States. Written in English.

Magazine story about a carefree stray dog, the source of the Tramp character.

What it handed down

To Lady and the Tramp (1955)

Direct source, well documented.

Disney bought Ward Greene's story of a carefree stray and merged it with Joe Grant's earlier idea about a cocker spaniel named Lady. Greene's dog became the Tramp, and Greene wrote a novelization tied to the film.

Where it came from

The line stops here: minor magazine story with no documented literary sources.

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1925

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Jazz Age. United States. Written in English.

Novel narrated by Nick Carraway about the self-made Jay Gatsby and his lavish Long Island parties.

What it handed down

To The Last Days of Disco (1998)

Thematic kinship, conjectural.

Critics have often called Stillman a Fitzgerald heir, and Last Days shares Gatsby's subject: a glamorous party world, seen by outsiders and observers, that is already passing as it is described. The film's closing elegy for a vanished social scene follows Fitzgerald's pattern, though Stillman's specific debt is not documented.
Where it came from
- Satyricon, Petronius c. 60 CE follow this thread
- Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad 1900 follow this thread
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1900

Lord Jim

Joseph Conrad

Late Victorian. England. Written in English.

Novel in which the narrator Marlow pieces together the story of a romantic young officer haunted by one act of cowardice.

What it handed down

To The Great Gatsby (1925)

Structural model, well documented.

Fitzgerald admired Conrad and modeled Nick Carraway's stance on Marlow: a participant-narrator who reconstructs, partly at second hand, the life of a romantic idealist he half admires. Gatsby's shaped, out-of-sequence revelation of its hero's past follows Conrad's method.

Where it came from

The line stops here: conrad's debts to Flaubert and Maupassant are not followed here.

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1814

Mansfield Park

Jane Austen

Regency. England. Written in English.

Novel of the poor, principled Fanny Price among her wealthy cousins and the worldly Crawford siblings.

What it handed down

To The Last Days of Disco (1998)

Thematic kinship, probable.

Stillman's comedies are routinely read as Austen transposed to modern Manhattan, and he later adapted Austen's Lady Susan as Love & Friendship. In Last Days the quiet, scrupulous Alice and the brittle, manipulative Charlotte play out a contrast close to Fanny Price and Mary Crawford.

To Metropolitan (1990)

Direct source, well documented.

Metropolitan explicitly discusses Mansfield Park: Audrey defends the novel and Fanny Price, while Tom admits he knows it only through Lionel Trilling's essay. The film's plot of a modest, steadfast girl and a lofty young man misled by a more worldly rival echoes Austen's novel.
Where it came from
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1798

Lovers' Vows

Elizabeth Inchbald

Georgian. England. Written in English.

Inchbald's English adaptation of a Kotzebue melodrama about an illegitimate son and a forthright heroine.

What it handed down

To Mansfield Park (1814)

Direct source, well documented.

The Bertram young people rehearse Lovers' Vows in Sir Thomas's absence, and the play's roles let Henry Crawford flirt openly with Maria. Austen chose the play for its improper situations, and the theatricals episode is the moral crux of the first volume.
Where it came from
- The Love Child (Das Kind der Liebe), August von Kotzebue 1790 follow this thread
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The Love ChildAugust von Kotzebue

1790

The Love Child (Das Kind der Liebe)

August von Kotzebue

Late Enlightenment. Germany. Written in German.

Sentimental German play about a soldier, his abandoned mother and the baron who seduced her.

What it handed down

To Lovers' Vows (1798)

Direct source, well documented.

Inchbald adapted Kotzebue's play for Covent Garden, toning down some of its frankness while keeping the plot of the illegitimate son and the outspoken Amelia.

Where it came from

The line stops here: minor branch; Kotzebue's sources in German sentimental drama are not followed.

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1785

The Task

William Cowper

Georgian. England. Written in English.

Long blank-verse poem of rural retirement, nature and religious reflection.

What it handed down

To Mansfield Park (1814)

Direct source, well documented.

Fanny Price quotes Cowper's line 'Ye fallen avenues, once more I mourn your fate unmerited' when Mr. Rushworth plans to cut down the avenue at Sotherton. Austen's brother Henry named Cowper as one of her favorite poets, and The Task's values of rural retirement and conscience shape Fanny.
Where it came from
- Paradise Lost, John Milton 1667 follow this thread
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1753

Sir Charles Grandison

Samuel Richardson

Georgian. England. Written in English.

Epistolary novel about an exemplary Christian gentleman and the women who love him.

What it handed down

To Mansfield Park (1814)

Thematic kinship, well documented.

Austen's family recorded that she knew Grandison intimately and adapted it as a short play. Its contrast between a principled hero and fashionable rakes, and its long scrutiny of conduct within a family circle, underlies Mansfield Park's treatment of Edmund and the Crawfords.
Where it came from
- Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded, Samuel Richardson 1740 follow this thread
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1740

Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded

Samuel Richardson

Georgian. England. Written in English.

Epistolary novel of a servant girl who resists her master's advances and finally marries him.

What it handed down

To Sir Charles Grandison (1753)

Structural model, well documented.

Grandison continues the epistolary method Richardson created in Pamela, telling the story through letters written in the moment. Richardson wrote it partly to offer a male exemplar after his virtuous heroines.
Where it came from
- Hebrew Bible (Genesis, Psalms), Anonymous c. 10th-2nd century BCE follow this thread
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1670

Pensées

Blaise Pascal

French classical age. France. Written in French.

Posthumous fragments of a defense of Christianity, including the wager argument.

What it handed down

To My Night at Maud's (Ma nuit chez Maud) (1969)

Direct source, well documented.

Pascal's wager is the film's central topic: Jean-Louis buys a copy of the Pensées, and he, Vidal and Maud argue about it at length. The film is set in Clermont-Ferrand, Pascal's birthplace, and stages the wager as a choice in love.
Where it came from
- Essays (Essais), Michel de Montaigne 1580 follow this thread
- Hebrew Bible (Genesis, Psalms), Anonymous c. 10th-2nd century BCE follow this thread
- Confessions, Augustine of Hippo c. 397-400 follow this thread
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1667

Paradise Lost

John Milton

Restoration. England. Written in English.

Blank-verse epic of the fall of Satan and of Adam and Eve.

What it handed down

To The Task (1785)

Stylistic influence, well documented.

Cowper wrote The Task in Miltonic blank verse and later translated Milton's Latin poems. His meditative digressions and syntax follow Milton's long verse paragraphs.
Where it came from
- Hebrew Bible (Genesis, Psalms), Anonymous c. 10th-2nd century BCE follow this thread
- Aeneid, Virgil c. 19 BCE follow this thread
- Iliad, Homer c. 750 BCE follow this thread
- The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri c. 1308-1320 follow this thread
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c. 1595 (printed 1597)

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

Elizabethan. England. Written in English.

Tragedy of two young lovers from feuding Veronese families.

What it handed down

To West Side Story (1961)

Direct source, well documented.

Jerome Robbins conceived the musical as a modern Romeo and Juliet, and the film follows Shakespeare's plot closely: feuding gangs for feuding houses, the balcony scene on a fire escape, and a fatal message gone wrong.
Where it came from
- The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet, Arthur Brooke 1562 follow this thread
- Metamorphoses, Ovid c. 8 CE follow this thread
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1580

Essays (Essais)

Michel de Montaigne

French Renaissance. France. Written in French.

Personal, skeptical essays examining the self, custom and knowledge.

What it handed down

To Pensées (1670)

Direct source, well documented.

Pascal read Montaigne closely and copied or answered many passages; his conversation with M. de Saci centers on Montaigne and Epictetus. The fragments on human misery and the weakness of reason argue directly against Montaigne's skepticism.
Where it came from
- Moral Letters to Lucilius, Seneca c. 65 CE follow this thread
- Aeneid, Virgil c. 19 BCE follow this thread
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The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and JulietArthur Brooke

1562

The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet

Arthur Brooke

Elizabethan. England. Written in English.

Long narrative poem in poulter's measure telling the Romeo and Juliet story.

What it handed down

To Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595 (printed 1597))

Direct source, well documented.

Brooke's poem was Shakespeare's main source, supplying the plot, the characters of the Nurse and Friar Laurence, and many details. Shakespeare compressed Brooke's months of action into a few days.
Where it came from
- Novelle, Matteo Bandello 1554 follow this thread
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NovelleMatteo Bandello

1554

Novelle

Matteo Bandello

Italian Renaissance. Italy. Written in Italian.

Collection of prose novellas including the tale of Romeo and Giulietta.

What it handed down

To The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet (1562)

Direct source, well documented.

Brooke worked from Pierre Boaistuau's French version of Bandello's novella of Romeo and Giulietta. He kept the Italian plot while adding moralizing commentary.

Where it came from

The line stops here: bandello reworked Luigi da Porto's earlier novella; that line is not followed here.

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c. 1308-1320

The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri

Late Medieval. Italy. Written in Italian.

Allegorical journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, guided first by Virgil.

What it handed down

To Paradise Lost (1667)

Thematic kinship, probable.

Milton read Dante in Italian and cites him in his prose. His Christian cosmos of hell, chaos and heaven and his narrator's journey through it take up Dante's precedent for a vernacular sacred epic.
Where it came from
- Aeneid, Virgil c. 19 BCE follow this thread
- Confessions, Augustine of Hippo c. 397-400 follow this thread
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c. 397-400

Confessions

Augustine of Hippo

Late Antiquity. Roman North Africa. Written in Latin.

Autobiographical address to God recounting Augustine's youth, reading and conversion.

What it handed down

To Pensées (1670)

Thematic kinship, well documented.

Pascal wrote from within the Jansenist movement at Port-Royal, which took its theology of grace from Augustine. The Pensées take up Augustine's restless heart and fallen will as the starting point of the case for faith.

To The Divine Comedy (c. 1308-1320)

Thematic kinship, probable.

Augustine's story of a soul turning from earthly loves to God underlies the pilgrim's journey, and Dante places Augustine among the blessed in Paradiso. The link is thematic rather than textual.
Where it came from
- Aeneid, Virgil c. 19 BCE follow this thread
- Hebrew Bible (Genesis, Psalms), Anonymous c. 10th-2nd century BCE follow this thread
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c. 65 CE

Moral Letters to Lucilius

Seneca

Neronian. Imperial Rome. Written in Latin.

Collection of philosophical letters giving Stoic counsel on living well.

What it handed down

To Essays (Essais) (1580)

Direct source, well documented.

Montaigne names Seneca, with Plutarch, as the author he returns to most, and the early essays are built on quotations from the Letters. The Letters' personal, conversational treatment of moral topics is a model for the essay form.

Where it came from

The line stops here: seneca's sources are Greek Stoic treatises that survive mostly in fragments.

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c. 60 CE

Satyricon

Petronius

Neronian. Imperial Rome. Written in Latin.

Fragmentary comic prose-and-verse novel whose centerpiece is the feast of the vulgar freedman Trimalchio.

What it handed down

To The Great Gatsby (1925)

Direct source, well documented.

Fitzgerald's working title was Trimalchio in West Egg, and Nick calls Gatsby's career as host his career as Trimalchio. The Satyricon's banquet of a rich freedman parading his wealth is the model for Gatsby's parties.
Where it came from
- Aeneid, Virgil c. 19 BCE follow this thread
- Odyssey, Homer c. 725 BCE follow this thread
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c. 8 CE

Metamorphoses

Ovid

Augustan. Augustan Rome. Written in Latin.

Epic poem of mythological transformations, including Pyramus and Thisbe.

What it handed down

To Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595 (printed 1597))

Thematic kinship, probable.

Ovid's tale of Pyramus and Thisbe, lovers kept apart by their parents who die through a fatal misunderstanding, lies behind the story's tragic pattern. Shakespeare knew the tale well and parodied it in A Midsummer Night's Dream, written around the same time.
Where it came from
- Aeneid, Virgil c. 19 BCE follow this thread
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c. 19 BCE

Aeneid

Virgil

Augustan. Augustan Rome. Written in Latin.

Epic of the Trojan Aeneas's wanderings and his founding of the Roman line.

What it handed down

To Paradise Lost (1667)

Structural model, well documented.

Milton built his poem on the Virgilian model, with an opening in medias res, a council of devils, a retrospective narrative of war and a revealed future. The first edition had ten books, revised to Virgil's twelve in 1674.

To Essays (Essais) (1580)

Direct source, well documented.

Virgil is among the poets Montaigne quotes most often, and in 'On Some Verses of Virgil' he takes the love of Venus and Vulcan from Aeneid Book 8 as a starting point for an essay on sexuality.

To The Divine Comedy (c. 1308-1320)

Direct source, well documented.

Virgil is Dante's guide through Hell and Purgatory, and Inferno's journey is modeled on Aeneas's descent in Aeneid Book 6. Dante calls Virgil 'my master and my author'.

To Confessions (c. 397-400)

Direct source, well documented.

Augustine recalls weeping over Dido's death in the Aeneid as a schoolboy while indifferent to his own spiritual death. His journey from Carthage to Rome inverts Aeneas's route.

To Satyricon (c. 60 CE)

Direct source, probable.

The poet Eumolpus recites a verse Capture of Troy that reworks the fall of Troy from Aeneid Book 2. Petronius uses Virgilian epic as a target for parody throughout.

To Metamorphoses (c. 8 CE)

Direct source, well documented.

Books 13 and 14 of the Metamorphoses retell Aeneas's journey in a compressed, ironic form, answering Virgil's epic directly. Ovid also borrows Virgil's hexameter epic manner and turns it toward wit and transformation.
Where it came from
- Odyssey, Homer c. 725 BCE follow this thread
- Iliad, Homer c. 750 BCE follow this thread
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c. 10th-2nd century BCE

Hebrew Bible (Genesis, Psalms)

Anonymous

Iron Age to Second Temple. Ancient Israel and Judah. Written in Hebrew.

Scriptures of ancient Israel, including the creation and fall in Genesis and the Psalms.

What it handed down

To Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740)

Direct source, well documented.

While imprisoned, Pamela rewrites Psalm 137, 'By the rivers of Babylon', as a verse lament about her captivity. Her letters are steeped in scriptural language and Protestant self-examination.

To Pensées (1670)

Direct source, well documented.

Whole sections of the Pensées treat Old Testament prophecy and the history of the Jews as evidence for Christianity. Pascal quotes Genesis, Psalms and the prophets throughout.

To Paradise Lost (1667)

Direct source, well documented.

Milton's epic expands the first chapters of Genesis, the creation and fall of Adam and Eve, into twelve books. Biblical phrasing and episodes run through the whole poem.

To Confessions (c. 397-400)

Direct source, well documented.

The Confessions are addressed to God largely in the words of the Psalms, which Augustine quotes on nearly every page. Book 9 describes his reading of Psalm 4 after his conversion.

Where it came from

This is one of the oldest surviving works in its tradition; the line ends here.

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c. 725 BCE

Odyssey

Homer

Archaic. Archaic Greece. Written in Ancient Greek.

Epic of Odysseus's ten-year voyage home from Troy.

What it handed down

To Satyricon (c. 60 CE)

Disputed link, probable.

Scholars have proposed that the novel's wandering hero Encolpius, pursued by the wrath of Priapus, parodies Odysseus pursued by Poseidon. The fragmentary text makes the overall design uncertain.

To Aeneid (c. 19 BCE)

Structural model, well documented.

The first six books follow the Odyssey: a sea journey, a storm, a hero narrating his wanderings at a foreign court, and a descent to the underworld. Virgil fuses the Odyssey and Iliad into a single twelve-book design.

Where it came from

This is one of the oldest surviving works in its tradition; the line ends here.

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c. 750 BCE

Iliad

Homer

Archaic. Archaic Greece. Written in Ancient Greek.

Epic of the wrath of Achilles during the Trojan War.

What it handed down

To Paradise Lost (1667)

Structural model, probable.

The war in heaven in Books 5 and 6 draws on Homeric battle narrative and divine combat. Milton also announces his subject as 'not less but more heroic' than the wrath of Achilles.

To Aeneid (c. 19 BCE)

Structural model, well documented.

The second half of the Aeneid restages the Iliad in Italy, with Turnus as a new Achilles and Aeneas's final duel modeled on Achilles and Hector. Virgil also takes over Homeric similes, catalogues and battle scenes.

Where it came from

This is one of the oldest surviving works in its tradition; the line ends here.

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To The Last Days of Disco (1998)

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To The Last Days of Disco (1998)

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To Saturday Night Fever (1977)

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To Metropolitan (1990)

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To Saturday Night Fever (1977)

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To The Last Days of Disco (1998)

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To Lady and the Tramp (1955)

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To The Last Days of Disco (1998)

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To The Great Gatsby (1925)

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To The Last Days of Disco (1998)

To Metropolitan (1990)

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To Mansfield Park (1814)

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To Lovers' Vows (1798)

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To Mansfield Park (1814)

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To Mansfield Park (1814)

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To Sir Charles Grandison (1753)

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To My Night at Maud's (Ma nuit chez Maud) (1969)

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To The Task (1785)

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To West Side Story (1961)

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To Pensées (1670)

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To Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595 (printed 1597))

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To The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet (1562)

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To Paradise Lost (1667)

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To Pensées (1670)

To The Divine Comedy (c. 1308-1320)

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To Essays (Essais) (1580)

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To The Great Gatsby (1925)

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To Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595 (printed 1597))