{"id":401,"date":"2011-03-23T03:34:21","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T08:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=401"},"modified":"2015-11-08T12:04:21","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T19:04:21","slug":"more-zombies-pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/more-zombies-pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies\/","title":{"rendered":"More Zombies &#8211; Pride and Prejudice and Zombies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Jane%20Austen\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-403\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Jane Austen \" src=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/CassandraAusten-JaneAustenBackView1804-e1300846818523.jpg\" alt=\"Jane Austen \" width=\"210\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a>I had heard of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1594743347\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=litquotes-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1594743347\" target=\"_blank\">Pride and Prejudice and Zombies<\/a><\/em> before.\u00a0 To be honest, I didn&#8217;t really pay that much attention.\u00a0 A rewrite of the <em>Pride and Prejudice<\/em> with Zombies?\u00a0 I filed in my brain the same place as the ghost of Elvis and Big Foot.\u00a0 Then I read the reviews.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ew.com\/ew\/article\/0,,20267705,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Entertainment Weekly<\/em><\/a> gave it an A-.\u00a0 It made it to the top ten of the <em>New York Times<\/em> bestseller list.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/jane-austen-and-seth-grahamesmith-pride-and-prejud,26559\/\" target=\"_blank\">The A.V. club<\/a> states, &#8220;Grahame-Smith\u2019s amendments add some interest, pathos, and essential motivation to Austen\u2019s subplots.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This one could be worth a read.\u00a0 In the meantime, if you want Zombie-free Jane Austen:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.&#8221; ~ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=Pride%20and%20Prejudice\">Pride and Prejudice<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Jane%20Austen\">Jane Austen<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had heard of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies before.\u00a0 To be honest, I didn&#8217;t really pay that much attention.\u00a0 A rewrite of the Pride and Prejudice with Zombies?\u00a0 I filed in my brain the same place as the ghost <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[145,146],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-litnews","tag-jane-austen","tag-pride-and-prejudice"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}