Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

The New York Times best seller is now a major motion picture starring Lily James and Sam Riley, with Matt Smith, Charles Dance, and Lena Headey.

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.

Author: Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith
Publisher: Quirk Books
Published: 04/01/2009
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.24w x 0.84d
ISBN: 9781594743344

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 8
Point Value: 18
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 135977 / Pride and Prejudice and Zombies


Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 04/03/2009 pg. 68
Entertainment Weekly 04/24/2009 pg. 16
Booklist 05/01/2009 pg. 67
School Library Journal 06/01/2009 pg. 150
Entertainment Weekly 07/17/2009 pg. 59
People Weekly 08/24/2009 pg. 56
Entertainment Weekly 12/11/2009 pg. 118
Entertainment Weekly 01/29/2010 pg. 71
Library Journal Annex 05/05/2009
Newsweek 03/08/2010 pg. 53
Chronicle of Higher Education 03/19/2010 pg. 13
New York Times Book Review 08/07/2011 pg. 17
Entertainment Weekly 10/11/2013 pg. 76

About the Author
Jane Austen is the author of Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, and other masterpieces of English literature. Seth Grahame-Smith is the author of the New York Times best seller Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. He also wrote the screenplay for the Tim Burton film Dark Shadows. He lives in Los Angeles.