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Updating the Classics? Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Posted in Life on December 31st, 2009 by steve

“About a third of my way through Seth Grahame-Smith’s adaptation of Pride and Prejudice – Pride and Prejudice and Zombies – I enthusiastically posted my approval on Facebook. To my surprise, a friend and colleague replied, registering her distaste and disappointment, having just finished the book herself …” (more)

[Christina Morin, Pue's Occurrences, 31 December]

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