Gone with the Wind, first published in May 1936, is a romance novel written by Margaret Mitchell, who won the Pulitzer Prize for the book in 1937. The story is set in Clayton County, Georgia and Atlanta during the American Civil War and Reconstruction. The novel depicts the experiences of Scarlett O'Hara, the spoiled daughter of a wellto-do plantation owner, who must use every means at her disposal to come out of the poverty that she finds herself in after Sherman's March to the Sea. The book is the source of the 1939 film of the same name.
Summary:
The book starts with the heroine of the piece, 17 year old Miss Scarlett O’Hara flirting to the best of her capacity with the handsome Tarleton twins on the porch of Tara, her plantation house home, and berating the seriousness of the impending war because it ruins her capacity to have fun, attend parties and have beaux. I mention this first page because it encapsulates the very nature of the entire novel. Scarlett O’Hara is a spoilt, selfish beauty with enormous power to manipulate men and a desire for the good things in life. Knowing this, you can see why she makes some of her seemingly ridiculous choices throughout the novel
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Gone with the Wind
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Gone with the Wind
Author :Margaret Mitchell Language: English Genres: Historical fiction, Romance, Drama, Novel ,Survival First published in May 1936
Atlantan Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel of the Civil War and Reconstruction in Georgia, Gone With the Wind occupies an important place in any history of twentieth-century American literature. Dismissed by most academic literary critics for being uneven, flawed, and conventionally written in an age marked by literary experimentation, and attacked by some cultural commentators as promulgating racist myths and undermining the very foundations of its basically feminist paradigm, the best-selling novel of the twentieth century continues to withstand its detractors.
beautiful sentences:
Whatever comes, I’ll love you, just as I do now. Until I die. In spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us, I love you. Land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for. Because it’s the only thing that lasts.
This article is about the novel. For the film, see Gone with the Wind (film). For (film). other uses, see Gone with the Wind (disambiguation). (disambiguation).