Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
The New York Times best seller is now a major motion picture starring Lily James and Sam Riley, with Matt Smith, Charles Dance, and Lena Headey. This deluxe heirloom edition includes a new preface by coauthor Seth Grahame-Smith, thirteen oil painting illustrations by Roberto Parada, and a fascinating afterword by Dr. Allen Grove of Alfred University—plus 30 percent more zombies!Complete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is an audacious retelling of English literature’s most enduring novel. This expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem begins when a mysterious plague falls 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. It’s the perfect read for literature lovers, zombie fans, and anyone who loves a reanimated Austen.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
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Rabid Readers Reviews –
What I love about “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” is what Grahame-Green …
What I love about “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” is what Grahame-Green did with the characters. They are free and empowered and, in the case of Miss. Elizabeth Bennet, somewhat psychotic. Charles Bennet trained his daughters in martial arts and the sisters are accomplished fighters. The Bennet sisters are fighters. Even Mary who is somewhat boring in the novel steps up and fights to protect her family and village. When Mr. Darcy is added to the plotline its as an accomplished monster hunter that gets on the wrong side of Lizzie and that’s not a side you want to be on.Devotees of Austen may think that Grahame-Green took the easy route. He copies whole paragraphs of the original piece but that is part of his charm. He integrates a subplot into the familiar that is both ridiculous and plausible in that he fills in the “off page” gaps. I’m not going to spoil anything but Lady Catherine’s role in the piece is a special delight. If you thought she was evil in the original work, get a look at her in a world in which the ability to defend oneself is a great asset. “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” is a quick and interesting whether you know the original work or not.
A. Coyne –
Far more interesting than the original.
I bought this several years ago now, but I still remember how much I enjoyed reading the story. My Mum had always tried to get me to read Pride & Prejudice as she is pretty obsessed with it and we’d all have to watch the various period drama adaptations on TV when they were on (even if they were repeats) and I honestly wasn’t that big a fan. Regency is not my favourite time period, and in regards to literature, I tend to favour horror, gothic and mystery over sappy romance novels. So for many many years my Mum’s pleas for me to read some Jane Austen fell on deaf ears.Until this book came along. It takes the words of Jane Austen and then instead of having the military aspect there to deal with the battles with the French (yawn) it adds in something far cooler: A zombie invasion threat. Instead of all the girls being insipid characters who can sing and dance and paint and wander out in the cold rain to catch a cold and not much else, suddenly they have been trained in martial arts to fight off the zombie incursion. That relatively minor change makes the story a far more interesting read than the original, despite retaining a lot of the original text.When I finished, I told my Mum that I had finally read Pride & Prejudice and she was over the moon. So it was a win win situation really. 😉
bookworm –
Loved it
LOVE the original P&P, and love the zombie genre. Putting these 2 together is a dream. Very well written, using the original text mixed with the twist, keeping the general outline of the original plot but with the added bonus of the zombie storyline.I have also seen the film adaptation which is markedly different from the book with regards to Wickham, however the film itself is a delight and prompted me to reread the book again (mainly because about halfway through I started thinking “this doesn’t feel familiar, I don’t remember this from the book”!).Have reread the JA original more times than I can remember and this will definitely be one which will join it on my comfort read list when I’m looking for an old familiar face for a while.
Hannah –
I loved it so much I immediately bought both sequels (Dawn …
In terms of classical literature I tend to prefer Gothic books. I tried reading Pride and Prejudice a few years ago with no success, it simply did not grab my attention.The combination of zombies with Pride and Prejudice managed to keep me enticed in both the survival horror aspects as well as the themes of the original book.I read this within a few days (purely because I had to physically put the book down and go to work, otherwise it would have been a matter of hours). I loved it so much I immediately bought both sequels (Dawn of the Dreadfuls and Dreadfully Ever After) only to find I loved them even more!Maybe now I’ll try reading the original text again… maybe… or I’ll just reread these…