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The full title of the book reads like this:
“Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance – Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem”.
And it really is the story as presented in “Pride & Prejudice” by Jane Austen. Just with a couple of zombies as extra.
To give you an example, I will present the first line of each books:
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.
So, it’s rather close really.
Pride, Prejudice & Zombies is written “by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith“, says the book. If you look at the back cover, you’ll find details about the authors:
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.
Style
Hilarious. Grahame-Smith mimicks Austen’s style perfectly. An example:
Elizabeth: one of our heroines. An athletic zombie slayer par excellence. Beautiful, wild. Looking for a husband. Well, her parents are looking for a husband for her. She’s quite happy without.
Charlotte: Elizabeth’s best friend, who was bitten by a zombie a couple of weeks ago, and is slowly transforming. Elizabeth can’t bring herself to kill her, so she tries to cover up Charlotte’s symptoms.
The following scene takes place at a dinner in a very luxurious castle:
Elizabeth watched Charlotte bow slightly, and then limp to the furniture to the furthest corner of the room, where she lifted the bottom of her gown and bent her knees into a squat. Elizabeth immediately excused herself, rose, and (taking care not to draw attention) grabbed Charlotte by the arm and escorted her to the toilette, where she watched her stricken friend suffer through a quarter-hour of a sickness so severe that decorum prevents its description in these pages.
Rating
2
You can buy the book on Amazon for currently 8.74 Euros, no shipping costs:
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
(this posting is dedicated to Sara who didn’t help me out with the word “back cover”)
(thanks to Marit for the book!)
