Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith

Given that large stretches of the book are still the original text, the book loses almost none of its wit and humour, and the civilized verbal sparring is only added to with the addition of actual sparring on more than one occasion. Darcy is still her match except now the characters can cut you down with more than just perfectly timed and devastating sass.

Elizabeth Bennett is still the formidable, spirited heroine she’s always been, and proud Mr. What is important is that this book is incredible, wicked fun from start to finish, taking everything I love about the original classic and adding in the Bennett sisters as unstoppable zombie killers. Darcy is credited with slaughtering one thousand of the ‘unmentionables (zombies) since the Fall of Cambridge.Īlso apparently Cambridge has fallen, but that’s really not important here. The Bennett sisters are masters of the martial arts, Lady Catherine de Bourgh has an army of ninjas at her beck-and-call, and Mr. Yes, the dead have risen and the ladies and gentlemen of English society have taken up swords, pistols, and daggers against them. Darcy as they cross wits among scandal, heartbreak, and romance in the English countryside. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies tells the familiar tale of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. But there they remain no excuse is found for them and no mercy shown them…Sometimes it seems as if her creatures were born merely to give Jane Austen the supreme delight of slicing their heads off' (Woolf, The Common Reader, 1925).Pride & Prejudice & Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith & Jane Austen Woolf writes: 'She encircles with the lash of a whip-like phrase which, as it runs round them, cuts out their silhouettes for ever. Virginia Woolf describes Austen's acerbic wit in terms that also suggest that a mash-up with zombies may not be so far-fetched.

Austen's first novel, Northanger Abbey, explicitly satirizes the gothic novels of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century. The blending of these genres might not be as unexpected as it might seem. This best-selling adaptation inspired a series of horror-classic novel mash-ups, including Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies blends Jane Austen's original text with Seth Grahame Smith's ninja/zombie plot. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, by Seth Grahame-Smith, 2009.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith