I read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. It was good. Not hilarious, but steadily entertaining. I definitely wouldn't have read the original, as I despise Victorian England romance-literature. I can't take bonnets, "oh, I say!", and tea for 400 pages.
Georgian and Regency.
Plus Austen isn't romance literature, she writes social satire.
I still can't take it. Not saying she's a bad author, but it's the sort of thing that causes me to look for the nearest pointy object and insert into the eye socket.
I'll take Wodehouse, thank you.
(And if you don't mind-- what is the difference between victorian/regency? One assumes the leaders, but more than that?)