The plot inspired Gaston Leroux’s 1910 novel Phantom of the Opera and innumerable other works derived from it. Trilby boots, shoes, silver scarf pins, parodies, and even sausages flooded the market, and the type of soft felt hat with an indented crown that was worn in the London stage dramatization of the novel, is known to this day as a trilby hat. Soap, songs, dances, toothpaste, and even the city of Trilby in Florida were all named after the heroine. It was the best-selling book of 1894, selling 300,000 copies by the end of the year. Trilby was a publishing and cultural phenomenon. Et puis zut! Allez toujours, mes enfants. ‘Et maintenant, le temps d’absorber une fine de fin sec et je m’la brise. ‘Y a pas d’quoi!’ said Trilby, divesting herself of her basket and putting it, with the pick and lantern, in a corner.
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