In addition, a film version starring and produced by Natalie Portman is already in the works.Ī few weeks ago, the latest installment in the series, Android Karenina, was released.
According to the Guardian, in a little over a year, over 50,000 copies have been sold in the UK-and 600,000 copies in the US. The first volume in the series, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, released in April of 2009, has become wildly popular.
Consequently, Quirk is free to publish them in whatever form they see fit-or perhaps more accurately, whatever form they see sales. In 2009, Quirk Books launched Quirk Classics, a series of books which aims-in the words of their mission statement-"To enhance classic novels with pop culture phenomena." The books in this series intermingle "the work of classic literary masters with new scenes of horrific creatures and grue-some action."įortunately for the publishers, all of the works they blend are already in the public domain. Note: these classics are not your great-grandfather's classics, but no one seems to be complaining. In an age where the classic literary masterpieces have lost their cache, who would have thought that a book series based in the classics of Western literature would be a publishing mega-success?
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