Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
The Classic Regency Romance-- Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem
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Random House, Inc.
“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 … More »
“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 … More »
Random House, Inc.
“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. Can Elizabeth 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.
Baker & Taylor
As a mysterious plague falls upon the village of Meryton and zombies start rising from the dead, Elizabeth Bennett is determined to destroy the evil menace, but becomes distracted by the arrival of the dashing and arrogant Mr. Darcy.
Hachette Book Group
'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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“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. Can Elizabeth 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.
Baker & Taylor
As a mysterious plague falls upon the village of Meryton and zombies start rising from the dead, Elizabeth Bennett is determined to destroy the evil menace, but becomes distracted by the arrival of the dashing and arrogant Mr. Darcy.
Hachette Book Group
'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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Authors:
Grahame-Smith, Seth
Statement of Responsibility:
by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
Title:
Pride and prejudice and zombies
the classic regency romance-- now with ultraviolent zombie mayhem
the classic regency romance-- now with ultraviolent zombie mayhem
Publisher:
Philadelphia :, Quirk Books ;, San Francisco :, Distributed in North America by Chronicle Books,, c2009
Characteristics:
319 p. :,ill. ;,21 cm.
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Add a CommentA fun twist on a wonderful classic! Our heroine Elizabeth battles brain-hungry zombies while also battling her heart when it comes to the handsome yet seemingly cold Mr. Darcy. Seth Grahame-Smith fits the zombies in perfectly and takes us on a journey in a zombie ridden world of Jane Austen.
If you've read Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and have watched the BBC and Kiera Knightley versions of the movie but were left wanting more, this is the book for you. In this version of the story, a plague has beset the world, the Bennett sisters have all learned the art of zombie fighting, and Lizzie finds love with her Mr. Darcy amidst the thrill of zombie chases and the loss of her best friend Charlotte to the zombie plague. As the book's tag line says, "The Classic Regency Romance -- Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!"
Okay, this was really silly, but the idea of Lady Catherine as a ninja warrior cracked me up. Best line by far: Jane's letter home from Netherfield (she stays over due to a zombie attack, not a cold) "Aside from a few bruises and a minor stab wound, there is nothing much the matter with me". If you love P&P but have a sense of humor about it, give this a shot.
i am very exited 2 read this book. although im not as exided as i was to read the graphic novle i am still exited
I do not see how meddling with the classics can be construed as an 'improvement' on them. The additions are clumsy, ill-written, not in the spirit of the author's vision and amounts to an badly-conceived, badly-executed attempt to tittilate modern readers that falls so flat as to be laughable. Though I will say that the smackdowns Elizabeth Bennett deals out to Fitzwilliam Darcy and Lady Catherine De Bourgh are no more or less than they deserve - hence the half-star... As you can see, I didn't like the book.
At first glance last year, I hated the sight of this book. I finally relented and read it (my inner-tween kept kicking the back of my brain; reminding of all the countless R.L. Stine Fear Street Sagas and Christopher Pike novels I had read) I love this book!!! I love the mix of this phemonal classic with the sublimely monstrous. I didn't a lot of the orginal text would have been kept and that if it had been kept it would have been so badly-maglined I would weep. The changing of certain pharses into one about zombies, sparing and the girls exclaiming their skills in mastery of marital arts was expertly done. And the fight between Mr.Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet over how Mr.Darcy had destoryed the happiness of Jane Bennet; I personally thought was better than just the gob-smacking of what was written by Ms.Austen between those two characters before. I expected to be mildy amused with the book... instead I honestly do think it's a very clever work of ficiton.
Adding the zombies didn't really add to the story and the writing wasn't great. The original is much better.
Alright, I guess....
Didn't like this either. Tried to make up for my poor review of Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter by giving another book by Grahame-Smith a try and was equally disappointed. Many parts even seemed like plagurism.
Absolutely horrible. Made me hate the original and at one time I actually liked the original a lot! I read books from a very wide range of subject material and especially all types of humour but, this was just beyond words to describe how bad it actually is so I will stop typing now.