![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That's why zombies, in particular, prove so compatible with Austen: the world of Pride and Prejudice can, with only the slightest tweaking, assimilate the undead, in much the same way as it treats the shuffling multitudes of the poor. You would not know, for instance, that Darcy woos Elizabeth in an England in which the Luddite rebellion has recently been savagely crushed. ![]() Monsters traditionally embody the kind of social tensions that literary classics hide beneath their mannered pages. A quick Amazon search reveals Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters (the Dashwood sisters find romance at the bottom of the ocean), Android Karenina (a steampunk Tolstoy), Little Women and Werewolves (you can probably figure that one out), and many, many more. Since then, mash-ups of the classics have multiplied like zombies at a mall. In this prequel to Seth Grahame-Smiths Jane Austen revamp Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the town of Meryton has grown quiet and complacent while the long-lived zombie menace lays dormant. Last year, Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a book that revealed Elizabeth and Jane Bennet as fearless ninja warriors driving the undead from Regency England, sold an astonishing 850,000 copies. Hockensmith, Steve Rating 4 stars Really Good Review Even if the non-Pride and Prejudice and Zombies characters were mostly cartoonish in their representation of stereotypes and tropes, they were fun to read as they provided a delightful offset to the canonical characters of the Bennet family. ![]()
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