"The Last Station" was adapted from the novel by Jay Parini, and its structure is fairly intricate parallel love stories (Tolstoy and Sofya, Valentin and Masha), plus interlocking triangles (Sofya and Chertkov contending for Tolstoy's soul, Sofya and Chertkov pumping Valentin for information about one another's grip on Tolstoy's property).

WSJ: The Last Station and The Book of Eli | Review by Joe Morgenstern

Longbourn follows a romance between a newly arrived footman and a housemaid in the Bennet household that runs parallel to the love story between Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet.

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Running in parallel with the trials of love is an account of the earliest vibrators, as developed for therapeutic purposes by our hero, the irony being that, without realizing it, he is, like Charlotte, in the business of female liberation.

NEWYORKER: Hysteria