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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! |  | Authors: Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith
Publisher: Quirk Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  422 reviews
Sales Rank: 391
Media: Paperback
Edition: Later Printing
Pages: 320
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.3 x 1
ISBN: 1594743347
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9781594743344
ASIN: 1594743347
Publication Date: April 4, 2009
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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 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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 Good Stuff March 11, 2010
A. Walser (Sierra Vista, AZ)
I admit that I was very reluctant to read this book. I abhor the abominations that dare call themselves sequels and rewrites of Jane Austen. Embarrassingly enough, I loved this book. I think Jane would have approved of the new and improved Miss Bennet and her katana. I loved Collins and Catherine De Bourgh (the famous slayer of the unmentionables). And even Darcy was made more sexy (is it possible?) by his skills with the sword. It was really a delight to read and I recommend it to any Austen fan that has a sense of humor.
 Brains. Braaaaains. Braaaaaaaaaaains! March 9, 2010
Cookie the Dog's Owner (Medina, Ohio)
Jane Austen's "Pride & Prejudice" is a great literary work, but it's also ponderously written (in the style of the times) and, if you're not a fan of elaborate chess-match courtship stories (as I am not) and don't geek out on the subtle details of early-19th century upper-class social interactions (as I do not) there's not a whole lot to hold your interest unless it's assigned reading in your literature class. Adding zombies, ninjas, and lurid depictions of unbridled carnage goes a long way toward broadening the book's appeal, and it took real "braaaains" to integrate the new text into the original so seamlessly. The joke eventually wears a little thin, but it's still more fun than a barrel of zombies. You'll never look at Jane Austen, or cauliflower, quite the same way again.
A fun read. March 8, 2010
Kady (Proctorville, OH)
Clever dialogue and lots of zombie silliness. A great way to spend a rainy day.
 GREAT Idea, But Not Enough Zombies March 3, 2010
SusanS (Atlanta, GA USA)
I read about this book, and being a secret Pride and Prejudice fan, I was excited to read a parody/send-up of it. However, while I enjoyed the fight scenes, the additional characterization of the sisters and Darcy, and the depiction of Charlotte (I won't say any more), I was quite disappointed with the arc of the zombie plot line. There's a reason that Pride and Prejudice has remained popular for almost 200 years: it's a pretty dang good story on its own. If one is going to add a significant storyline, such as zombies taking over England, as part of the plot, there should be a similarly exciting arc to the zombies as to the love story. I kept waiting for the stakes to rise in the zombie plot, and they never did.
So, it's a good read overall--witty, great additional details, and some wonderful imagery, but honestly, it really just made me want to read Pride and Prejudice (the non-zombie version) again. But maybe that was the point.
 Meh. I wish I had borrowed it from the library. March 1, 2010
Sean Mccreery (Cambridge, MA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was excited about this idea. I rarely buy books in advance. I usually borrow them from the library, or read part of them in the store, and then buy them if I like them. But this idea seemed so interesting I ordered it outright. Wrong idea. It is ok. But it is also boring. Pride and Prejudice itself is actually not boring, and Zombies are also not boring, but waiting for this book to bring something exciting and new and it never really occurring? That is boring. The parts with the zombies, mentioning the zombies, working the zombies into the story is fun for the first 10-15 pages but then nothing really happens. This would have worked better as a new zombie filled drama set in the late 1700s than a Zombie Austen remake because the two genres work calmly against each other rather than feeding off each other. So it was ok but not anything great. I wish now I had borrowed it from the library. I suggest you do the same.
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