Added by: susan6th | Karma: 3133.44 | Fiction literature | 4 January 2010
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The Light That Failed
The book, which includes autobiographical elements, describes the youth and manhood of Dick Heldar and traces his efforts as a war correspondent and artist whose sketches of British battles in the Sudan become popular. When he returns to London, he begins painting his masterpiece, racing against time because a battle wound has caused his eyesight to progressively fail.
Complete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses, 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' transforms a masterpiece of world literature into something you'd actually want to read.
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