Reinventing the classics is not exactly a new idea. The latter is the fourth offering from The Austen Project – re-writings of each of Austen’s six novels for modern audiences – preceded by Alexander McCall Smith’s Emma, Val McDermid’s Northanger Abbey, and Joanna Trollope’s Sense and Sensibility. This spring sees the arrival of two anticipated additions to the ever-swelling Pride and Prejudice canon: Burr Steers’s film Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, based on Seth Grahame-Smith’s bestselling literary-horror mash-up of the same title, in which the Bennet girls defend themselves against a bloodthirsty army of the undead and Eligible, Curtis Sittenfeld’s novel that swaps early 19th Century England for contemporary Cincinnati. When it comes to much-loved literary classics, the process of adaptation is fraught enough but when it comes to spin-offs and re-imaginings the ante is upped significantly.
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