Yeah, Jane Austen is good, but wouldn't her work be so much better with a few zombies thrown in? Seth Graeme-Smith thought so, and the result is his new novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance -- Now With Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!This is the publisher's blurb: "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies features the original text of Jane Austen’s beloved novel with all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie action. 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."
P&P&Z will be available April 15.--David E
UPDATE: Brains!
2 comments:
Brilliant. Two of my favorite things. I can see a lot of potential in this: The Scarlet Letter & Zombies, Gone With the Wind & Zombies, Frankenstein & Zombies.
We were having this same conversation in the store. Suggestions included War and Peace and Zombies and Death and the Maiden and the Zombies
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