Gone with the wind
By: by Margaret Mitchell.
Contributors: Herman Finkelstein Collection (Library of Congress); Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1936
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1037
Subjects: O'Hara, Scarlett (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Women -- Georgia -- Fiction; Plantation life -- Fiction; Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
First sentence: Scarlett O’Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as
the Tarleton twins were.
Description: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gone with the Wind is a romantic drama and the only novel written by Margaret Mitchell. It is set in Jonesboro and Atlanta, Georgia during the American Civil War and Reconstruction.[1] and follows the life of Scarlett O'Hara, the daughter of an Irish immigrant plantation owner.

The novel won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize and was adapted into an Academy Award-winning 1939 film of the same name. It was also adapted during the 1970s into a stage musical Scarlett; there is also a 2008 new musical stage adaptation in London's West End titled Gone With The Wind. It is the only novel by Mitchell published during her lifetime, and it took her seven years to write it and a further eight months to check the thousands of historical and social references. The novel is one of the most popular books of all time, selling more than 30 million copies (see list of best-selling books). Over the years, the novel has also been analyzed for its symbolism and treatment of mythological archetypes.[2][3]

Time magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.[4]
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.
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