Sneak prewiew: Pride and prejudice and zombies

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"Pride and prejudice and zombies, By Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possesssion of brains must want more brains

So begins Pride and prejudice and zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. 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 bu the arrival of 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. Can Elizabeth vanquish the spawn of Satan? And overcome the social prejudices of the class-conscious landed gentry?
Complete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies transforms a masterpiece of world literature into something you´d actually want to read.

Jane Austen is the author of Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, and other masterpieces of english literature. Seth Grahame-Smith once took a class in English literature. He lives in Los Angeles."