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

By: Jane Austen (Author) and Seth Grahame-smith (Narrator)


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"The book, probably the first Austen/horror mashup to make it into print, is roughly 85 percent Austen's original text, with references to monsters, putrefying flesh and ninja swordplay added on just about every page."

"This Meryton and its environs are threatened by the flesh-eating undead, and the Bennet girls aim to do their duty, even as they fret about what to wear to the next ball."

"[F]or a Jane Austen fan, the gratifying aspect of reading PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES is not the comic bloodthirsty additions, but rather how they highlight the humor that already exists in the original PRIDE AND PREJUDICE."

"[T]here's something particularly hilarious about introducing the undead into an English novel of manners."

Publisher's note

A new edition of the splicing of Austen's classic romance with ultra-violent zombie mayhem includes a new preface by Grahame-Smith, thirteen new full-color oil-painting illustrations, and 30 percent more zombie scenes, in a book about Elizabeth Bennet's efforts to crush a zombie plague that has befallen the village of Meryton, all while dealing with the haughty Mr. Darcy. Read by Katherine Kellgren.

A new edition of the splicing of Austen's classic romance with ultra-violent zombie mayhem includes a new preface by Grahame-Smith, thirteen new full-color oil-painting illustrations, and 30 percent more zombie scenes, in a book about Elizabeth Bennet's efforts to crush a zombie plague that has befallen the village of Meryton, all while dealing with the haughty Mr. Darcy. Read by Katherine Kellgren.

"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.
a oeThe real question is: If Mr. Darcy became infected, would Elizabeth have the fortitude to behead him in time?" a " Salon.com
a oeA a delightful comedy of mannersa (TM) featuring Elizabeth, Darcy, and the undead.a a "Jezebel.com
" Seth Grahame-Smith] has taken the merry world established by a 19th-century literary lady, added a scourge of reanimated corpses, and created...well, a pop cultural phenomenon, certainly, and one that has stirred up a lot of excitement. But the greater achievement of the book may lie in the satisfying desire it awakens to read the remix and the original side by side." (Entertainment Weekly)

Annotation

Resurrecting Jane Austen's classic story of Elizabeth Bennett, a young English lady who never quite fits the form, Seth Grahame-Smith has brought in George Romero as consultant. Whether or not you think Austen's PRIDE AND PREJUDICE needs a retooling, it is hard to dispute the cleverness (or trend savviness) of television writer Grahame-Smith's conceit: believe it or not, some published Austen scholars have analyses ready to support a zombie reading of P&J. Martial art battles, the walking dead, and brains splatter the pages of Austen's book, one strong enough to sustain this and the other attacks sure to follow.



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