Quirk Books editor Jason Rekulak developed an ingenious literary idea in 2009. Take a classic novel beloved by individuals around the world that all of them remember reading and/or avoiding reading in their sophomore year English classes. Make sure whatever novel you took is also in the public domain. Then mash up your chosen novel with an unexpected genre that has a particular appeal in western pop culture. That was his equation for the internet beloved and mainstream media liked Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and that title?s spiritual sequel Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. An adaptation of that equation also factored into Pride and Prejudice and Zombies? writer Seth Graham-Smith?s subsequent work, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. And another adaptation of that equation is the driving force behind Hank Green (who?s one half of the incredible Vlog Brothers) and Bernie Su's (who? behind the Streamy Award-winning original web series, Compulsions) latest online video program. The Lizzie Bennet Diaries is Jane Austen?s classic Pride and Prejudice tale of manners, morality, and marriage updated from 19th-century England to 21st-century YouTube. The web series is more or less the videoblogging stylings of one presumably upperish-middle-class (at least by initial appearances) 24-year-old grad student, Elizabeth ?Lizzie? Bennet (played by Ashley Clements) and anyone else who stumbles into frame (like BFF Charlotte, who operates the webcam and Lizzie pulls onto screen) and/or Lizzie decides to impersonate (like Lizzie?s mom, Mrs. Bennett, who one might say is overly concerned with her daughters finding a suitable - aka rich - life partner)
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