Remember that scene in Pride and Prejudice when Bingley ran out of shotgun cartridges and got munched down like old shortbread? Well, you can now! Here’s the official summary of this bizarre and sexy hybrid novel by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith:
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.
Which is all well and good. But when can I expect my “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and Fisting”?*
/Paul
*Never. EVER.
(Link via Neatorama)
2 responses so far ↓
1 Handles // Jan 29, 2009 at 10:37 am
If I had to study this one for highschool English I might have actually read it rather than just using the Cliffs Notes.
2 Adam // Jan 29, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Paul, I curse thee! I’m on my lunch break at the moment, and I genuinely lol’d. Not at the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, I thought that was all well and good, but your “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and Fisting” was the show stopper. Apparently my co-workers don’t see it as laugh-out-loud material.
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