Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! (edition 2009)

by Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith

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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.

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Title:	Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!
Authors:	Jane Austen
Other authors:	Seth Grahame-Smith
Info:	Quirk Books (2009), Paperback, 320 pages
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A very silly, goofy book. I really enjoyed reading a zombie novel where the zombie apocalypse is portrayed as a minor inconvenience that just lets the characters have a bit of fun killing every once in a while. Truly all period pieces should have zombies. (

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KimberlyH98 | Mar 8, 2024 |

Was in love when I heard the concept of the book, namely remixing work where the copyright had expired. Note that I would not have approached such a combined unless I was either not ever intending to read the book or was already familiar with its contents. Seeing the movie would not have been justworthy enough, but I had listened to the audiobook of Pride and Prejudice.
The execution, itself, was good in many respects. However, it only add these small, dead elements on top of the story. It would have been more thorough to have added an additional plot that related specifically to the zombie cause. Since this was not included, the book is not exactly worth the read. I feel like I have wasted my time reading an abridged version of a book and cannot really say I read Pride and Prejudice at all.
Will definitely read some of the other Grahame-Smith books though. Just have to do a bit more background research beforehand. (

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MXMLLN | Jan 12, 2024 |

Katherine Kellgren can do no wrong in my eyes. She is the Platonic ideal of an audio book narrator. Is there a Kellgren fan club? Can I start one? And be president? And frighten her with my immoderate love of her?

Anyway, there are some fantastic and funny things going on in this book. I love that Charlotte only agrees to marry Mr. Collins because she's contracted the zombie plague. I love that Mr. Darcy beats Mr. Whickam lame. I love that Elizabeth nearly rips out Lady Catherine's heart. But in between the awesome parts, it's just Pride and Prejudice. I completely love P&P, so that's not a bad thing, still I can only give three stars to a book that adds a few crazy-funny bits to a book that is already very funny and essentially perfect. I mean, what if I added a few hilarious scenes to Wayne's World? You'd be like, "Well, great job, Destinee, but it was already awesome enough." Exactly. (

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LibrarianDest | Jan 3, 2024 |

Audiobook version. This book comes across exactly as the foreword indicates: The author who is no particular fan of Austen took the original text of the book and substituted chunks of text to include a zombie story. Even worse, the additions ape the worst of modern day historical romance. I don't get the fuss about this book. I thought it was awful and gave up about a quarter of the way in. (

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Doodlebug34 | Jan 1, 2024 |

I really enjoyed this book. I sometimes i got lost when i listen to it but overall i really enjoyed how zombies were added to the story. It was a fun read and i really hope to see the movie soon.

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added by DoctorDebt | editThe Washington Post, Monica Hesse (Apr 17, 2009)

P&P&Z has just too much Austen and not enough zombies. I found myself skimming, skipping larger and larger chunks of text to get to the zombie sequences, desperate to escape the claustrophobic drawing-room chatter of Austen's characters with a little beheading, disemboweling and derring-do.

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Grahame-Smith, Seth	—	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Austen, Jane	—	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Hockensmith, Steve	—	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Kellgren, Katherine	Narrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Quirk Classics

Has the adaptation

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Graphic Novel by Tony Lee

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies [2016 film] by Burr Steers

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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

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Awards

Audie Award (Finalist – Fantasy – 2012)

Delete Key Award (First Runner-Up – 2010)

The Kitschies (Finalist – Red Tentacle (Novel) – 2009)

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

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Pemberley, Derbyshire, England, UK

Rosings, Kent, England, UK

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls (2010 | IMDb)

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First words

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.

Quotations

The mere stateliness of money or rank she could witness without trepidation, but the presence of a woman who had slain ninety dreadfuls with nothing more than a rain-soaked envelope was an intimidating prospect indeed.

‘What can be da meaning of dis?’ howled Charlotte, as soon as he was gone. ‘Mah dear Ewiza, he muss be love you, aw he never wuh have called in dis famiwiar way.’

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English

Canonical DDC/MDS

813.6

Canonical LCC

PS3607.R348

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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.

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(From the back of the book) "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 edtion 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. Can Elizabeth 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.

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