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

by Jane Austen (Author)

Series: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (01)

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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 (Author)
Info:	Quirk Books (2009), 320 pages
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith

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I Love Jane Austen: Pride And Prejuduce & Zombies	24 unread / 24	TheUpturnedKnows, March 2010
Hogwarts Express: Pride & Prejudice & Zombies: Discuss	16 unread / 16	kirbyowns, August 2009
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I loved the addition of the zombies. It was fully interwoven with all the classic book parts that it flowed very well.
My fav. part was the party in the beginning when the dad calls out for the girls to fight (I laughed out loud and startled my dog and husband) and I loved the "group discussion" questions at the end. Ahhh, this was great!! (

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Trisha_Thomas | Nov 13, 2024 |

Let it go after a few chapters. Hope to pick it up again soon.

cgalvin | Nov 9, 2024 |

I was expecting something more unique than a word-for-word copy of P&P (not even attempts at rewording dialogue, etc.) with a few "zombies" and killings tossed in. Meh. (

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emanate28 | Oct 22, 2024 |

I didn't really like this, but I didn't hate it enough to give it a bad star rating. I think I just wanted it to be something it wasn't. I think some of it was just silly, and while I understand that we're talking about zombies here, I just felt like it needed a different vibe. (

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smashbasile | Oct 20, 2024 |

An amusing trifle. (

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SteveCarl | Jun 24, 2024 |

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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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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (01)

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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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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Journal by Chronicle Books LLC

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: 30 Postcards by Chronicle Books

▾Awards and Honors

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

Important events

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

Epigraph

Dedication

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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