Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!

Overview

"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 Meryton-and 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 lovers-and 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.

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Author Information

Bio of Jane Austen

Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775 at Steventon near Basingstoke, the seventh child of the rector of the parish. She lived with her family at Steventon until they moved to Bath when her father retired in 1801. After his death in 1805, she moved around with her mother; in 1809, they settled in Chawton, near Alton, Hampshire. Here she remained, except for a few visits to London, until in May 1817 she moved to Winchester to be near her doctor. There she died on July 18, 1817. As a girl Jane Austen wrote stories, including burlesques of popular romances. Her works were only published after much revision, four novels being published in her lifetime. These are Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816). Two other novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, were published posthumously in 1818 with a biographical notice by her brother, Henry Austen, the first formal announcement of her authorship. Persuasion was written in a race against failing health in 1815-16. She also left two earlier compositions, a short epistolary novel, Lady Susan, and an unfinished novel, The Watsons. At the time of her death, she was working on a new novel, Sanditon, a fragmentary draft of which survives.

Bio of Seth Grahame-Smith

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Customer Reviews

• Zombies make Jane Austin paletable

  Posted May 28, 2009 by Josh, Anchorage

  This is wonderful. This is what should be given to children in freshman english. Now if we could just spice up Shakespeare and some other classics with zombies.

• Enjoyed the "between the gaps" action

  Posted October 07, 2009 by JeanTexas, Texas

  I was surprised at how closely this followed Jane Austen's classic; and was entertained at how well the Zombies were threaded through the storyline. Not being a fan of horror and scary stories, I did enjoy the diversion that the Zombies played. It's a fun, easy, delightful read.

• Hilarious but true to the original story

  Posted October 24, 2009 by Jennifer, Virginia

  As the other reviewers mentioned, the story stays very close to the original storyline of Pride and Prejudice. The moments where zombies are added in are hilarious. Even the reading questions at the end of the book are funny.

Additional Info

Imprint

Quirk Books

Filesize

4.16 MB

Number of Pages

320

eBook ISBN

9781594744495