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| Genre/Form: | Historical fiction War stories Fiction |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949. Gone with the wind. New York : Macmillan, 1936 (OCoLC)570331202 |
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Margaret Mitchell; Herman Finkelstein Collection (Library of Congress); Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress); Rouben Mamoulian Collection (Library of Congress) |
| ISBN: | 9781416548898 1416548890 |
| OCLC Number: | 290058 |
| Notes: | "Published May 1936"--Verso of t.p. Actual publication of the 1st ed. was delayed to June 30, 1936. Cf. Gone with the wind as book and film / Richard Harwell. c1983. P. [xv]. LC copy has dust jacket. Newspaper clipping from the Parade section, Oct. 31, 1976 and magazine clipping from Publishers weekly, Sept. 6, 1976 on author laid in. Source: Gift of Herman Finkelstein, Dec. 30, 1980. |
| Awards: | Pulitzer Prize, Novel, 1937. |
| Description: | 1037 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Responsibility: | by Margaret Mitchell. |
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An anniversary edition of Margaret Mitchell's timeless classic.
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"Let's say you've read "Gone with the Wind" at least twice, and seen the movie over and again. So, here's a thought. Buy this handsome paperback edition, just for Pat Conroy's preface. This passionate, nearly breathless love letter is a Song of Solomon to Margaret Mitchell, Scarlett O'Hara, and Conroy's beautiful, GTW-obsessed mother. Indeed, his luminous preface packs a durable wallop, just like the epic Pulitzer prize-winning work that inspires it." -- Jan Karon, author of "The Mitford Years" series Read more...
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Gone But Not Forgotten
Who doesn't know the plot of "Gone with the Wind"?At 16, Scarlett O'Hara, a spoiled, selfish, headstrong daughter of a wealthy plantation owner is passionately in love with Ashley Wilkes, a refined, scholarly man with no passion at all. It takes the Civil War, Reconstruction and her third husband, Rhett...
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Who doesn't know the plot of "Gone with the Wind"?At 16, Scarlett O'Hara, a spoiled, selfish, headstrong daughter of a wealthy plantation owner is passionately in love with Ashley Wilkes, a refined, scholarly man with no passion at all. It takes the Civil War, Reconstruction and her third husband, Rhett Butler, to make her realize Ashley was never the man for her. Margaret Mitchell has an organic approach to character development. She introduces each character's general tendencies and then grows them situation by situation. For example, any time she's faced with an unpleasant situation, Scarlett says "I think of it tomorrow." Any time she's in trouble, she runs home to Tara. So, when Rhett walks out, her response is totally characteristic. Most of what I remembered of "Gone with the Wind" was from the movie: the burning of Atlanta, ripping down curtains to make a new dress. But Margaret Mitchell's novel is far more than a collection of vivid scenes and characters. Mitchell's prose flows. She varies her paragraph lengths so reading is easy. There is lots of dialogue. Despite the book's whopping length (1,000 + pages), I read it easily in a day. This well-written classic deserves the Pulitzer it won. Gone with the Wind was#1 on the 1936 bestseller list#1 on the 1937 bestseller lista Pulitzer Prize winner© 2007 Linda Gorton Aragoni
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