Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

#34; After all, tomorrow is another day It s April 1861. Georgia, southern United States. Scarlet O Hara the vivacious, narcissistic and pampered daughter of a plantation owner in Atlanta in a fit of choleric contempt over rejection by her desired man, Ashley Wilkes, hurls a figurine against the wall. and behind the depths of the sofa, Rhett Butler is woken up from his nap. You re no gentleman, fires the southern belle. And you re no lady the rogue fires back. Scarlet, for vengeance, accepts the marriage proposal from Charles Hamilton Ashley Wilke s brand new brother-in-law. But at the outbreak of the American Civil War he joins the army and dies of pneumonia followed by measles, a not-so-gallantry death. Through wiles and widowhood, Scarlet manages to keep her independence and becomes an astute business woman. Rhett Butler the dark, flashy and scandalous visitor from Charleston who is a professional gambler and blockade runner, is enamored by her survival instincts. Around the social turmoils of the war, what becomes of O Hara and Rhett Butler, an outcast whom she marries for money? The only novel by Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind continues to seduce and rock the world seventy-nine years after its publication.#34;

#34; After all, tomorrow is another day It s April 1861. Georgia, southern United States. Scarlet O Hara the vivacious, narcissistic and pampered daughter of a plantation owner in Atlanta in a fit of choleric contempt over rejection by her desired man, Ashley Wilkes, hurls a figurine against the wall. and behind the depths of the sofa, Rhett Butler is woken up from his nap. You re no gentleman, fires the southern belle. And you re no lady the rogue fires back. Scarlet, for vengeance, accepts the marriage proposal from Charles Hamilton Ashley Wilke s brand new brother-in-law. But at the outbreak of the American Civil War he joins the army and dies of pneumonia followed by measles, a not-so-gallantry death. Through wiles and widowhood, Scarlet manages to keep her independence and becomes an astute business woman. Rhett Butler the dark, flashy and scandalous visitor from Charleston who is a professional gambler and blockade runner, is enamored by her survival instincts. Around the social turmoils of the war, what becomes of O Hara and Rhett Butler, an outcast whom she marries for money? The only novel by Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind continues to seduce and rock the world seventy-nine years after its publication.#34;

Margaret Mitchell was born 8 November 1900 in Atlanta, Georgia. After a childhood surrounded by relatives who had survived the Civil War she enrolled at Smith College, Massachusetts, but was forced to return to the family home after her mother's death. After a difficult first marriage Mitchell became a reporter for the Atlanta Journal Sunday Magazine and was married again in 1925. In 1926, due to an ankle injury, Mitchell stopped work as a reporter and began to write the Civil War novel which would become Gone with the Wind (1936). She was persuaded by a friend at Macmillan to submit the novel and upon publication it sold more copies than any other novel in American history and was awarded a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize. The 1939 Hollywood film adaptation garnered eight Oscars and became the highest-grossing film of all time in the US and Canada. Mitchell died tragically on 16 August 1949. Her novella Lost Laysen was published posthumously in 1996 and became a New York Times bestseller. By 2000 30 million copies of Gone with the Wind had sold in 40 languages.

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ISBN 13	9781416548898
ISBN 10	1416548890
Title	Gone with the Wind
Author	Margaret Mitchell
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Year published	2007-07-10
Number of pages	959
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