Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is a 2009 parody novel by Seth Grahame-Smith. It is a mashup combining Jane Austen's classic 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice with elements of modern zombie fiction, crediting Austen as co-author. It was first published in April 2009 by Quirk Books and in October 2009 a Deluxe Edition was released, containing full-color images and additional zombie scenes. The novel was adapted into a 2016 film starring Lily James and Sam Riley.
== Background ==
Quirk Books editor Jason Rekulak developed the idea for Pride and Prejudice and Zombies after comparing a list of "popular...
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters (2009) is a parody novel by Ben H. Winters, with Jane Austen credited as co-author. It is a mashup story containing elements from Jane Austen's 1811 novel Sense and Sensibility and common tropes from sea monster stories. It is the thematic sequel to another 2009 novel from the same publisher called Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. It was first published by Quirk Books on September 15, 2009.
== Plot summary ==
The story follows the plot of Sense and Sensibility, but places the novel in an alternate universe version of Regency era United Kingdom where an event...
Maya Angelou's "They Went Home" opens like this:
They went home and told their wives,
that never once in all their lives,
had they known a girl like me,
But... They went home.
The end of the second verse also ends "But... They went home", and the third ends "But...", clearly hinting the same th...0
Brian Jacques's Redwall stories contain a huge number of songs: marching songs, drinking songs, campfire songs, feast songs, all of them different and none repeated from one book to another (as far as I can remember). And they're not simple or hastily written: they're good songs, always fitting t...
Some examples I found on the internet:
"Their works resemble those of Moliere, in the variety and justness
of characters." - A Biographical History of England by James
Granger
"It must, beyond any other science, teach us the turns of humour and
passion, the variety of manners, the justness of c...0
This passage is from *The children's bach" by Helen Garner
Dexter walked with a bandy, rapid gait. They kept pace easily, not
touching. They covered miles each night in the dark, sometimes heading
east along the creek across the parklands to where it joined the Yarra River,
sometimes north-west ...
A little known fact about William Blake is that his poems in Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience were published in a painted form. As the article William Blake and the Music of the Songs explains:
One of the characteristics of Blake’s work that makes it so interesting—and so challengin...
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-the-house-of-death-n05060
While I'm asking about a painting it's as much about Blake's poetry. I haven't been able to find much analysis of this painting for the novice.
"The Archangel Michael shows Adam the misery that will be inflicted on Man now he ...
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In Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus is rich: he owns cattle, swine, sheep, goats. Kirkē asks Odysseus to sacrifice cattle and sheep, and to do libation with milk, honey, wine, flour; Teiresias asks Odysseus to sacrifice cattle and sheep and swine (in the future after the end of the story). The Odyssey...
