The Lazy Reader’s Guide to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

In the spirit of using Cliff’s Notes for a half-assed paper about a classic work of 19th-century English literature, I’d like to offer you The Lazy Reader’s Guide to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. An “expanded edition” of Jane Austen’s classic novel about social convention, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is exactly what it sounds like — the original Jane Austen text with a few brain eaters thrown in the mix courtesy of Seth Grahame-Smith.

I’m pretty sure that’s all it is. I didn’t entirely read the book, but I skimmed around to find the best scenes of Elizabeth Bennet kicking zombie-ass. Not that I don’t love Jane Austen or zombies, but the combination is a little, well, uneven. After an earnest, failed attempt to actually read it, I have to assume that skimming for the zombie parts is kind of the point. The first line is a real winner:

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.

The best moments of brain-eating in the time of English gentry are after the jump.