Complete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of 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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IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want or more brains.- CHAPTER 1
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(@quirkbooks, 1 May 2009, e-book, 346 pages, borrowed from @GlasgowLib via @OverDriveInc, #POPSUGARReadingChallenge, a book that started out as fan fiction)
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I enjoyed Pride and Prejudice and Zombies a lot. I thought the movie was really entertaining even though I expected it to be cheesy and awful. I've never read Pride and Prejudice so have no idea how much of the original book has been retained and how much as been changed. This is a fun book, entertaining as hell and I thoroughly enjoyed myself reading it. I preferred the zombie bits to everything else.
