Pride and Prejudice and Zombies 傲慢与偏见与僵尸
[audio]http://file.24en.com/bbc/tae/furniture_820375/bbc_tae_207_pride_and_prejudice.mp3[/audio][color=#3f3f3f][font=Verdana, 宋体, helvetica, arial, sans-serif][size=12px]What do you associate with Jane Austen? [b]Genteel[/b] romance? [b]Wry social comment[/b]? [b]Blood-splattered bodices[/b]?
[p=21, 2, left]If that seems [b]inconsistent[/b], you may need to flick through Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a new version of Austen's classic romance into which US writer Seth Grahame-Smith has inserted a series of [b]zombie[/b] horror[b]interludes[/b]. The text of the new edition is roughly 85% Austen and 15% Grahame-Smith.[/p][p=21, 2, left]Hanging a horror story on the structure of Pride and Prejudice is apparently an easy thing to do.[/p][p=21, 2, left]"If you read through the original book it's [b]startling[/b] how many opportunities Jane Austen left in her original work for [b]ultra-violent[/b]zombie [b]mayhem[/b]" Grahame-Smith says.[/p][p=21, 2, left]In the new version, [b]feisty[/b] heroine Elizabeth Bennet still needs [b]to come to terms with[/b] her complex feelings for the [b]aloof and reserved[/b] Mr Darcy, but she also needs to combat the zombie [b]menace plaguing[/b] her village of Meryton.[/p][p=21, 2, left]Just as well then, that she is now a Kung Fu master.[/p][p=21, 2, left]To Grahame-Smith that makes perfect sense. "You have this [b]sharp-tongued[/b] [url=http://d.24en.com/s/?wd=character]character[/url] in Elizabeth Bennet - [b]it's not that big a leap[/b] to put a sword in her hand and say she's now a [b]slayer[/b] of the [b]undead[/b]."[/p][p=21, 2, left]The book is the latest in a trend of 'mash-ups' – interesting mixes of two[b]incongruous[/b] elements. Mash-up albums and videos have been a huge hit on the internet. Grahame-Smith hopes that his new book will attract some new readers to Jane Austen, a writer for whom he has great respect.[/p][p=21, 2, left]But what would she make of it all if she knew? Would she approve? Or would she be [b]rolling in her grave[/b]?[/p][p=21, 2, left]"I don't think she'd be rolling in her grave - or trying to claw her way out of it" he says. "I think she would smile. And then she'd sue me for a billion dollars."[/p][/size][/font][/color]
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