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Many musicians base band names, songs or albums from books. For example, Blind Guardian has many songs which reference Tolkien and King. Others take their names from books. Obvious examples include As I Lay Dying and Paradise Lost. Other examples include Amon Amarth, named after a mountain in Lord of the Rings, and Keep of Kalessin, named after a dragon in the Earthsea Cycle. If you do vote, please indicate why. :)
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Wuthering Heights
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The Lord of the Rings
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Romeo and Juliet
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Alice in Wonderland
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Jane Carruth (Adapted By)
4.03 avg rating — 396,092 ratings
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Lolita
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Animal Farm
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Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
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The House at Pooh Corner (Winnie-the-Pooh, #2)
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The Secret Garden
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4.17 avg rating — 1,271,734 ratings
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A Fairy Tale of New York
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The Great Gatsby
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3.93 avg rating — 5,777,225 ratings
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
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The Master and Margarita
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The Catcher in the Rye
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3.80 avg rating — 3,824,830 ratings
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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4.08 avg rating — 168,569 ratings
score: 390,
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Don Quixote
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3.91 avg rating — 299,334 ratings
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The Highwayman
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4.27 avg rating — 5,984 ratings
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The Phantom of the Opera
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3.96 avg rating — 269,706 ratings
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Frankenstein
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3.89 avg rating — 1,788,764 ratings
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The Grapes of Wrath
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4.02 avg rating — 977,346 ratings
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Lost Horizon
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3.95 avg rating — 24,433 ratings
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Venus in Furs
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3.63 avg rating — 16,189 ratings
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The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
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Peter S. Beagle (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 120,317 ratings
score: 302,
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Goldfinger (James Bond, #7)
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3.83 avg rating — 26,796 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 500,937 ratings
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Strange Fruit
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3.99 avg rating — 960 ratings
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The Mabinogion
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3.93 avg rating — 8,475 ratings
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David Copperfield
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4.04 avg rating — 254,465 ratings
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The Odyssey
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3.83 avg rating — 1,165,447 ratings
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Heart of Darkness
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3.43 avg rating — 549,008 ratings
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Ulysses
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3.77 avg rating — 139,071 ratings
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Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
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4.02 avg rating — 637,451 ratings
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The Ground Beneath Her Feet
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3.80 avg rating — 12,126 ratings
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Where Angels Fear to Tread
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3.59 avg rating — 17,519 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,689,097 ratings
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The Wings of the Dove
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3.78 avg rating — 17,430 ratings
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Jane Eyre
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4.16 avg rating — 2,275,906 ratings
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Tender Is the Night
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3.77 avg rating — 147,558 ratings
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Big Sur
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3.84 avg rating — 37,391 ratings
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1984
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4.20 avg rating — 5,287,109 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 1,806,645 ratings
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The Sheltering Sky
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3.89 avg rating — 30,259 ratings
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Peyton Place (Peyton Place, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 13,204 ratings
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The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
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3.94 avg rating — 166,240 ratings
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Stranger in a Strange Land
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3.92 avg rating — 324,260 ratings
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Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower, #5)
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 198,634 ratings
score: 194,
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The Holy Bible: King James Version
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4.44 avg rating — 310,966 ratings
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Chariots of The Gods
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3.53 avg rating — 17,411 ratings
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
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4.11 avg rating — 1,235 ratings
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Gravity’s Rainbow
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4.01 avg rating — 47,228 ratings
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The Art of War
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3.95 avg rating — 555,959 ratings
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The Idiot
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4.21 avg rating — 210,293 ratings
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The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
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3.91 avg rating — 63,675 ratings
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Mason & Dixon
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4.13 avg rating — 12,267 ratings
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A Room of One’s Own
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4.22 avg rating — 250,221 ratings
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Brave New World
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3.88 avg rating — 1,262,168 ratings
score: 148,
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A Clockwork Orange
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 757,635 ratings
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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3.92 avg rating — 1,002,667 ratings
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
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4.04 avg rating — 536,100 ratings
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A Moveable Feast
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4.02 avg rating — 164,080 ratings
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The Sun Also Rises
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3.79 avg rating — 485,271 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,374,085 ratings
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Lord of the Flies
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3.70 avg rating — 3,138,161 ratings
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Wide Sargasso Sea
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3.59 avg rating — 104,310 ratings
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Everything is Illuminated
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Jonathan Safran Foer (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 183,117 ratings
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The Stranger
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4.03 avg rating — 1,337,033 ratings
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Civilization and Its Discontents
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3.80 avg rating — 43,798 ratings
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And Quiet Flows the Don
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Blinded by the Sun
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3.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Invisible Monsters Remix
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 149,976 ratings
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DJ Pascoe's Top 10 Tunes 2 - The best tracks from 101 of the hottest pop stars
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Pascoe Sawyers (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Who Are You, Again? - The Complete Edition
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Lisa Goldin (Theunissen) (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Christian Musician: Learn What Your Real Gift Is and How To Succeed, with and Beyond Your Music
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4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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A Rose for Emily and Other Stories
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My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
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The History of Synthwave
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Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology
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The Snow Goose
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The Farthest Shore (Earthsea Cycle, #3)
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Tao Te Ching
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Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
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4.19 avg rating — 78,164 ratings
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Fight Club
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 632,640 ratings
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Who Are You, Again? - Series I Artist
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Lisa Goldin (Theunissen) (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 14 ratings
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2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 332,038 ratings
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Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle
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4.02 avg rating — 4,543 ratings
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The End of Music: The Death of the Dream of Independent Musicians
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Choke
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 219,252 ratings
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Who Are You, Again? - Series II Do You Believe?
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Lisa Goldin (Theunissen) (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Ghost in the Machine
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The Foundation Trilogy (Foundation, #1-3)
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The Last Resort or How to Succeed in the Music Industry
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Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)
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Robin Hobb (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 384,142 ratings
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Growth of the Soil
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The Children Of The Night
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Survivor
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 122,978 ratings
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Who Are You, Again? - Series III World
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Lisa Goldin (Theunissen) (Goodreads Author)
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Peter Pan
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Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
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The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
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Tristan and Isolde
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How do you feel about the song "Tender is the NIght" a reference to Keats' Ode to a Nightingale ?
Thom wrote: "How do you feel about the song "Tender is the NIght" a reference to Keats' Ode to a Nightingale ?"Add whatever you think works :p
OK, So here you have a song, "Tender is the Night", the title taken from Keats Ode, and also the Fitzgerald novel of the same title.
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