Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!: Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith: Books

by Jane Austen (Author), Seth Grahame-Smith (Author) Key Phrases: sorry stricken, strange plague, deadly arts, Lady Catherine, Miss Bingley, Miss Bennet (more...)
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I love zombies. Abstractly. I don't really want to have to live in a post-apocalyptic world where I have to repeatedly make perfect headsho ...
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puretravel Added Mar 9, 2010  
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robert Added Jun 4, 2009  
That...is hilarious.

What's next...War And Peace and Space Aliens, where Kutuzov and Napoleon team up against insidious mind-controlling space bugs?
mike Added Jun 4, 2009  
This may be the most wacky by-product of the busy Jane Austen fan-fiction industryat least among the spin-offs and pastiches that have made it into print. In whats described as an expanded edition of Pride and Prejudice, 85 percent of the original text has been preserved but fused with ultraviolent zombie mayhem. For more than 50 years, we learn, England has been overrun by zombies, prompting people like the Bennets to send their daughters away to China for training in the art of deadly combat, and prompting others, like Lady Catherine de Bourgh, to employ armies of ninjas. Added to the familiar plot turns that bring Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy together is the fact that both are highly skilled killers, gleefully slaying zombies on the way to their happy ending. Is nothing sacred? Well, no, and mash-ups using literary classics that are freely available on the Web may become a whole new genre. Whats next? Wuthering Heights and Werewolves? --Mary Ellen Quinn

Product Description
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains." So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Merytonand the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she's soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young loversand even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield as Elizabeth wages war against hordes of flesh-eating undead. Can she vanquish the spawn of Satan? And overcome the social prejudices of the class-conscious landed gentry? Complete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies transforms a masterpiece of world literature into something you'd actually want to read.