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 edition features sixteen pages of color stills from the film, a reading group discussion guide, and other bonus materials. Complete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses, Pride and Prejudice and … 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.
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Love, love the genre of mixing classics, historical figures and horror. Read and bought quite a few of these and haven’t been disappointed yet. Just a few titles: Abraham Lincoln Vampire Killer; Little Women and Werewolves; Tom Sawyer and the Undead; Android Karenina; The War of the Worlds, Plus Blood, Guts and Zombies; Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters to name a few. One more excellent read is The History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer.
P & P with Zombies, who could ask for anything more!
I really enjoyed this book. It was very fun to listen to on audio and made the reading experience much better. The characters were easy to understand and the book leaves you with wanting more.
It’s the iconic tale and also zombies. If you ever wondered whether Elizabeth Bennet would survive the zombie apocalypse, wonder no more. Sharp-tongued and a skilled zombie-killer, Elizabeth often saves her loved ones from near-certain demise due to the omnipresent undead. The story is mostly Jane Austen with a little camp and of course, zombies. It was a fun read and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I remember being very apprehensive about Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, thinking the idea was absolutely ludicrous and nobody would want to read something like that. But guess what. I wanted to read something exactly like that, it seems, because I bought the book for EUR3 in Ireland a few years back and read it through rather quickly. Eventually, I realized that if there was a book like this, there must be other version of it. The most promising one was Kate Christie’s Gay Pride and Prejudice, so I bought and read that too. Suffice to say, I am not disappointed in either purchase.
Let’s tackle them one by one.
Firstly, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is a retelling of the story wherein the entirety of England has been overtaken by zombies, and most people are just happy to be alive at this point. The Bennet daughters have all been trained in the art of combat by their father, who has trained them in the use of swords, guns, nunchucks, ninja stars, etc. He believes that they should be able to defend themselves, and they definitely need this, as every few pages a zombie attack seems almost imminent.
The rest of the story is rather similar to the classic – Jane loves Bingley, Elizabeth hates Darcy, by the end everybody is married and happy. The entire story just has the added element of zombies and the characters getting into gruesome battles.
One thing that struck me about this retelling, however, is Charlotte Lucas’s story. As we all remember, Charlotte is Elizabeth’s best friend until she marries Elizabeth’s cousin and cuts off ties from Elizabeth and her family. In this retelling, however, Charlotte doesn’t marry Collins because of his fortune, but rather so that she can be happy for the last few months of her life. You see, Charlotte was bitten, unbeknownst to anyone, and she’s afraid that she will never get to experience the life of love and commitment that she had always wanted. Meeting the very oblivious and simple Mr Collins prompts her to marry him, so that she can at least be happy for the rest of whatever is left of her life. They both come to a sad end – Charlotte succumbs to her wounds, and it is implied that Mr Collins shot her and then killed himself after that.
The book is really a very interesting character study because it makes you think about how certain characters would react in the unlikely event of a zombie apocalypse. We all know what our toughest and most brilliant favourite characters would do, but what about the one who aren’t so headstrong? This book does a good job of showing us the different ways that human beings deal with a crisis: adapt, or die.
Poor Jane Austen. She would not be happy with this, I think.
I absolutely love this book! Almost as much as the original!
Returned this book. Not foe me.
classic lit and zombies…what more could one ask for? I mean outside of updating it to where marriage doesn’t mean a woman has to stop being kick ass.