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The novel Sense and Sensibiliy and Sea Monsters, horror and fantasy-oriented version of Sense and Sensibility, one of the most important books of English novelist Jane Austen. Technically, the task of rewriting is called mashup , a term borrowed from the world of techno music which shows the mixing of two different songs to create an entirely new piece.  In the publishing field Quirk Books has interpreted the operation taking a famous novel and rewrite it, introducing themes and situations from the horror genre.While the rewriting of Austen’s first novel had touched the American Seth Grahame-Smith, the new edition of Sense and Sensibility Sea Monster mashup was the work of Ben H. Winters, author who had never before climbed the headlines. The publishing house said that in the first novel, about 85 percent was composed by the work of Austen, in this second novel, only 60 percent will be original. The rest is the rewriting of Winters, which has included giant lobsters, octopus disgusting, sea snakes with two heads, ruthless pirates and more.
In pride and prejudice and zombies, as in Austen’s original version, everything revolves around the five daughters of the Bennet. The heroine Elizabeth Bennet lived with her four sisters and their parents on a country estate and from her father to respected and feared fighters trained against the zombie hordes. Her mother, however, sees her mission in life is to marry off their daughters as a respectable, well-off games.
When the rich alone, and acquires, Mr. Bingley a country house in the neighborhood, Mrs. Bennet sees her chance and sends therefore come their daughters to the ball, will appear on the prospective groom. After the five Bennet sisters to fend off a zombie attack on the ball company, Mrs. Bennet seems to be absorbed into account. Jane, the eldest of the sisters, attracts the attention of Bingley in itself, although her sister Elizabeth “Lizzy” with Bingley’s friend, the zombie hunter Fizwilliam Darcy comes together.
The following are known Austen’schen confusions and pitfalls of the main characters Lizzy and Darcy, Jane and Bingley, which this time, however, are not only the annoying habits, “Pride,” “prejudice” and “English prudery ‘for trouble, but also numerous Undead. To languish, unnoticed by most, Lizzy’s best friend from the “plague” infects gone. In addition, they must be against hordes of ninjas (from the dojo of Darcy’s aunt, Lady Catherine Zombie Hunters Legend) to defend, it must be disposed of many living dead, beaten and bloody battles are finally uncovered the plot of the false friend Wickham, finally able to overcome pride and Darcy and Lizz, prejudices and zombies and find together.



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