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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Books Jane Austen's Dawn of the Dead

Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:56 PM

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies features the original text of Jane Austen's beloved novel with all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie action. 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. Complete with 20 illustrations in the style of C. E. Brock (the original illustrator of Pride and Prejudice), this insanely funny expanded edition will introduce Jane Austen's classic novel to new legions of fans.

More info here. You can preorder it here. Via.

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I'm so over zombies. I want to think this is clever, but I can't.

Posted by Aislinn on January 27, 2009 at 3:08 PM

That is brilliantly awesome. Gotta love the public domain.

Posted by disintegrator on January 27, 2009 at 3:19 PM

Agreed with @1. This should have been PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND FANGS. Doesn't the author keep up with the times?!

Posted by Jay Andrew Allen on January 27, 2009 at 3:22 PM

Gotta, gotta love it!

Posted by steve on January 27, 2009 at 3:34 PM

I'll probably read it.

Posted by Greg on January 27, 2009 at 3:46 PM

It wasn't nearly as good as Sense and Sensibility and Vampires or Mansfield Park Werewolf Attack.

Posted by yucca flower on January 27, 2009 at 4:03 PM

I agree that I'm actually getting tired of zombies. But if this is done well, it's kinda genius.

@6: Get on Mansfield Park Werewolf Attack before somebody else does. That's pure gold.

Posted by Paul Constant on January 27, 2009 at 4:11 PM

Northfanger Abbey.

Posted by scary tyler moore on January 27, 2009 at 4:20 PM

Someone really needs to make a good giant robot movie and get mecha into the fad spotlight. I would go apeshit for Jane Austen's Super Dimension Fortress Mansfieldcross... wouldn't you?

Posted by breklor on January 27, 2009 at 4:22 PM

You know that's what I always thought when reading Pride and Prejudice or seeing any one of the zillion movie adaptions, "What this story needs is some zombie action." I would pay money to have that simpering bitch Keira Knightley eaten by zombies.

Posted by PopTart on January 27, 2009 at 4:37 PM

The skeleton part looks so much like its from Chip Kidd's cover for When You are Engulfed in Flames, or the Van Gogh painting that Kidd used for it. But the neck bones are way off.

Posted by kcip on January 27, 2009 at 6:35 PM

pride and putresence.

Posted by ellarosa on January 27, 2009 at 8:24 PM

WHAT? I HAVE BEEN DREAMING ABOUT THIS SINCE SENIOR YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL. I thought Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mister Norrell was the answer! But here it is! P&P! WITH ZOMBIES.

Posted by dangergirl on January 27, 2009 at 10:17 PM

Helena Bonham Carter for the movie?

Posted by libby on January 27, 2009 at 11:51 PM

1 & 3: Zombies over? Never! You people can move on to your fangs-as-metaphor-for-pentration vampires and your too-cool-for-school Kraken, but I'll stick with my beloved zombies, thanks very much.

Posted by Kalakalot on January 28, 2009 at 8:48 AM

i should always remember to stop reading anything in the stranger before i get to the comments section.

Posted by ughughugh on January 28, 2009 at 10:02 AM

Fangs? vampires are teh boring.

Posted by cs on January 28, 2009 at 12:31 PM