'It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains'

Above, the first sentence of "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies," "an edition of Austen's classic juiced up with 'all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem' by a Los Angeles television writer named Seth Grahame-Smith," wrote Jennifer Schuessler in yesterday's New York Times.