Weekly Zombie Fix: “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”
Posted Nov 04 2009 10:04pm
Kyle and I were looking for sweet zombie stuff on the internet some time ago, and stumbled upon this:
Yes, this is an actual book! Kyle promptly put in an order and just got it in the mail a week or two ago. This semester I’m taking a senior-level Victorian Lit class, so this totally made me laugh. The cover is just like all the academic Penguin or Oxford Press editions of my Victorian novels, right down to the random portrait on the cover (except obviously this one’s been… um… modified!). I even mentioned it to my prof, who had enough of a sense of humor to laugh at the thought of Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy swordfighting with zombies. I’ll have to let you know what Kyle thought after he reads it!
The Classic Regency Romance—Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! By Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies — “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.
Jane Austen is the author of Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, and other masterpieces of English literature. Seth Grahame-Smith once took a class in English literature. He lives in Los Angeles.
Kyle and I were looking for sweet zombie stuff on the internet some time ago, and stumbled upon this:
Yes, this is an actual book! Kyle promptly put in an order and just got it in the mail a week or two ago. This semester I’m taking a senior-level Victorian Lit class, so this totally made me laugh. The cover is just like all the academic Penguin or Oxford Press editions of my Victorian novels, right down to the random portrait on the cover (except obviously this one’s been… um… modified!). I even mentioned it to my prof, who had enough of a sense of humor to laugh at the thought of Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy swordfighting with zombies. I’ll have to let you know what Kyle thought after he reads it!
The Classic Regency Romance—Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! By Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies — “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.
Jane Austen is the author of Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, and other masterpieces of English literature. Seth Grahame-Smith once took a class in English literature. He lives in Los Angeles.
Kyle and I were looking for sweet zombie stuff on the internet some time ago, and stumbled upon this:
Yes, this is an actual book! Kyle promptly put in an order and just got it in the mail a week or two ago. This semester I’m taking a senior-level Victorian Lit class, so this totally made me laugh. The cover is just like all the academic Penguin or Oxford Press editions of my Victorian novels, right down to the random portrait on the cover (except obviously this one’s been… um… modified!). I even mentioned it to my prof, who had enough of a sense of humor to laugh at the thought of Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy swordfighting with zombies. I’ll have to let you know what Kyle thought after he reads it!
Here’s the information on the book from the publisher’s website:
Kyle and I were looking for sweet zombie stuff on the internet some time ago, and stumbled upon this:
Yes, this is an actual book! Kyle promptly put in an order and just got it in the mail a week or two ago. This semester I’m taking a senior-level Victorian Lit class, so this totally made me laugh. The cover is just like all the academic Penguin or Oxford Press editions of my Victorian novels, right down to the random portrait on the cover (except obviously this one’s been… um… modified!). I even mentioned it to my prof, who had enough of a sense of humor to laugh at the thought of Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy swordfighting with zombies. I’ll have to let you know what Kyle thought after he reads it!
Here’s the information on the book from the publisher’s website: