Quotes from Alex Michaelides's books, and about them
The Maidens on The Duchess of Malfi: “she picked up the pile of books on the desk, and looked at the titles—The Duchess of Malfi, The Revenger's Tragedy, The Spanish Tragedy.”
The Maidens on The Spanish Tragedy: “looked at the titles—The Duchess of Malfi, The Revenger's Tragedy, The Spanish Tragedy.”
The Maidens on In Memoriam A.H.H.: “It was a slim black leather-bound volume. IN MEMORIAM A.H.H. by Alfred Tennyson was embossed on the cover in faded gold lettering.”
The Maidens on Henry VI, Part 2: “Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind... —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI, Part 2 (Part Six epigraph)”
The Maidens on The ABC Murders: “he lay in the surf, happily engrossed in The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie.”
The Maidens on Paradise Lost: “Zoe checked her watch. "I have to go. I've got a class on Paradise Lost."”
The Maidens on Paradise Regained: “The childhood shows the man, / As morning shows the day. —JOHN MILTON, Paradise Regained (Part Four epigraph)”
The Maidens on Poetics: “The perfect plot, accordingly, must have a single, and not... —ARISTOTLE, Poetics (Part Three epigraph)”
The Maidens on Iliad: “Homer begins The Iliad with 'μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος'—'Sing to me, O goddess, of the menis of Achilles.'”