Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Seth Grahame-Smith, 2009)
Austen’s novel with a zombie plague written into it, most of her sentences left in place.
The novel already has a battle of wits. Add an actual battle and see what survives.
You know the novel and want to laugh at it while it is still there on the page.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: most of Austen’s text — The New Yorker’s critic estimated about 85 percent.
Changes: the rest: the undead overrun England, the Bennet sisters are trained warriors, and the plot bends around the fighting.
A zombie plague in Regency England and martial-arts Bennet sisters, with about 85 percent of the text Austen’s, by one New Yorker critic’s estimate.
Whose story is it?
Elizabeth’s, now with a sword.
How much time does it ask?
320 pages in Quirk’s paperback.
Quirk Books, 2009; credited to Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith.
Where to find it
Buy the paperback — Bookshop.org
Other ways to get it: Paperback — Amazon · Ebook — Kobo · Kindle — Amazon
Borrow it free: Borrow on Libby · Find at your library — WorldCat
Common questions
How much of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is Austen?
Most of it. The New Yorker’s critic estimated that about 85 percent of the text is Austen’s; Seth Grahame-Smith wrote the rest, and the book credits both of them.
More ways into Longbourn: Penguin Classics, ed. Vivien Jones (2002) · The Oxford World’s Classics edition (2020) · The Norton Critical Edition, fourth edition