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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

By: Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen
Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren
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Publisher's summary

"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 hear.

This Heirloom Edition of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies includes a new preface by the author, an afterword by Dr. Allen Grove, professor of English literature at Alfred University, and new scenes of gratuitous zombie mayhem.

©2009 Quirk Books (P)2009 Audible, Inc.

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"[Seth Grahame-Smith] has taken the merry world established by a 19th-century literary lady, added a scourge of reanimated corpses, and created...well, a pop cultural phenomenon, certainly, and one that has stirred up a lot of excitement. But the greater achievement of the book may lie in the satisfying desire it awakens to read the remix and the original side by side." ( Entertainment Weekly)

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Pride & Prejudice & Zombies

I LOVE THIS BOOK AND THE ZOMBIES MADE IT BETTER. WICKHAM GOT GOT WHAT HE DESERVED.

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Loved it!

Pride and Prejudice is one of my favorite books. This was a great twist. Well done.

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The ultimate recorded book

if ever there were a book better listened to than read, it is Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Katherine Kellgren's voice is perfect for the narration, conveying clearly the heart of the flower of upper-class, regency English twit-dom.
The story doesn't merely insert zombie narrative into Austen's work, but parodies the already ludicrous personalities in the original novel and introduces a hysterical and incongruous culture of Eastern martial arts among the gentry, ladies included. By all means listen to, rather than read this novel, but be aware that strangers will look at you funny when you burst into laughter without any apparent prompt.

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narrator did a superb job

It amazed me that the author can write in the language of the time Very good.

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....good god...

written in the same language, and with the same stylistic identity as any tale about Victorian England, but with the narrative and adeptness of captivation of an audience wielded by Jane Austen, it has its foundation in excellence.
The fact that this so seamlessly incorporates zombies into the physical and social trials and tribulations of the sisters Bennett, is a wonder in and of itself. I'll refrain from my pomposity and speak as I truly am. I'm no literature person or any of that s**t. I read a lot of biographies and all that, but this book is f**king sick.

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Entertaining

One of the most entertaining audio books I have had the pleasure of listening to.

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Interesting premise ... then lost me

I did not finish this. I loved the intro and what the author was doing was interesting, then it just got too far fetched for me.

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Seth Graham-Smith can't make up for Austen's failures.

I understand that Jane Austen is a beloved author. And I respect her writing. However, I have never found her narratives entertaining. Nor have I ever been able to connect with the upper middle class problems of a Victorian woman. I gave this edition of Pride and Prejudice with open arms and negligible expectations.

Yet, it became quickly clear that the zombie parts are enjoyable while Austen's remaining text bores and drags on. Even Seth Graham-Smith's creative weaving of the extreme into Austen's proper prose can't save the lacking plot.

Bottom line is that if you didn't like Jane Austen before, don't expect zombies to somehow make up for it. Just read a different book instead.

Narration by Katherine Kellgren is good though.

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Not like the movie!

Funny and entertaining but not like the movie and much more faithful to the book or as faithful as you can be wh

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Its about what you expect, but well done!

PPZ is fundamentally the author going through pride & Prejudice and rewriting bits of it to include zombies. I was surprised how well it worked out and the absurdity of it all is very entertaining. most of all, through, it works because Pride and Prejudice is such a good book with interesting characters that it can withstand the treatment. its not perfect, some passages go from absurd humor to cheesy camp and some scenes fell very tacked on while others flow convincingly from original text to zombie mayhem.

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