Author Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies adds a new life to Jane Austen’s Masterpiece work.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Authors Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith have a lot in common. Jane has written many masterpieces of English literary fiction. Seth Grahame-Smith once took a class in English Literature. Okay, maybe that is a bit of a streach, but Newman Communications is having fun with “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” coordinating a book publicity campaign that has radio begging for more.
Pride and Prejudice is perhaps the most beloved and frequently adapted novel of all time. It’s been made into Hollywood films, a Broadway musical, and a BBC miniseries, and was even the basis for Bridget Jones’s Diary. But never before has Jane Austen’s prim and proper comedy of manners been spun into such horrific, brain-munching delight as in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
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. This delightful comedy-with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers-becomes all the more absurd and entertaining as Elizabeth wages war against hordes of the undead.
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 many other respected works of art.
Seth Grahame- Smith is the author of How to Survive a Horror Movie, The Big Book of Porn, and Pardon My President all published by Quirk Books.
Newman Communications has risen the undead for radio publicity on outlets that include
- the Fox Radio Network
- Cable Radio Network
- Westwood One
- and many others nationwide.
Zombies and other bone crunchers don’t have a chance when Newman takes charge.
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