Literary Mayhem No. 2 Pride and Prejudice - and zombies..

Fellow literary characters,

first of all, some of what you've already read

Pride and Prejudice chapters 1,2

excerpt you read -  http://www.4shared.com/document/xVBkfWB1/1813_-_Pride_and_Prejudice_-_J.html

the whole book - http://www.4shared.com/document/Lzc-XTyq/1813_-_Pride_and_Prejudice_-_J.html
the whole book online - http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/pridprej.html

Audio version of first 2 chapters - really helpful, different narrators, to download or listen online

http://www.4shared.com/folder/51SsgSea/1813_-_Pride_and_Prejudice.html

and now for something completely different...

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is a 2009 parody novel by Seth Grahame-Smith

chapters 1,2,19,20

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B4iDA8dEogrHODg4OGYwZTgtOTJmZC00MjI3LWEwMTEtNTM1MGFhNjJlMTFh&hl=en

whole book

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B4iDA8dEogrHMTJlYWE0MzktZWM1OC00MjU4LWI4NGMtMDMyMGQ2ZWYwZDEy&hl=en

resources - please read and listen:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_and_prejudice_and_zombies

Grahame-Smith began with the original text of Austen's novel, adding zombie and ninja elements while developing an overall plot line for the new material; "you kill somebody off in Chapter 7, it has repercussions in Chapter 56".According to the author, the original text of the novel was well-suited for use as a zombie horror story:

You have this fiercely independent heroine, you have this dashing heroic gentleman, you have a militia camped out for seemingly no reason whatsoever nearby, and people are always walking here and there and taking carriage rides here and there . . . It was just ripe for gore and senseless violence. From my perspective anyway.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102485068

Beware on your next trip to the bookstore — zombies have invaded a classic. The living dead have come to Longbourn, the land of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

Author — make that co-author — Seth Grahame-Smith altered Jane Austen's original text ever so slightly to accommodate brand new scenes of the Bennet girls forming "The Pentagram of Death" and taking on hordes of the undead, along with a ninja or two.

Grahame-Smith talks to Jacki Lyden about Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

Looking forward to discussing the texts on Thursday,

Ondrej