Gone with the Wind
Good Books rating 3.9
Technical:
- ID: 34
- Added: 2025-08-10
- Updated: 2025-09-02
- Publisher: eClassica
- Published: 2020-01-01
- Reviews: 4
This is the tale of Scarlett O’Hara, the spoiled, light-minded, flirtatious daughter of a wealthy plantation owner in the South, who arrives at young womanhood just in time to see the Civil War forever change her life. In spite of a huge popularity around men, she only loves Ashley Wilkes. But one day she meets the daring and rude, handsome and charming Captain Butler. Scarlett does not like him at first sight, as he is arrogant and disparaging against her. Whilst Butler falls in love with Scarlett at first sight. – Since its original publication in 1936, Gone with the Wind – winner of the Pulitzer Prize and one of the bestselling novels of all time – has been heralded by readers everywhere as ›The Great American Novel‹.
Reviews
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- "The poisonous legacy of Gone with the Wind: Margaret Mitchell's novel and the film adaptation shaped the American myth of white supremacy."
- "It unleashed a variety of social forces that foreshadowed an alliance of white liberals and black people who encouraged the expectation that black people would one day achieve equality."
- "The film eventually became a template for measuring social change."
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- "Scarlett’s longstanding and mutual 'lost love' with Ashley is finally brought to light."
- "Out of the stress of the tragedy, Melanie miscarries her own baby."
- "Rhett is a broken man who can no longer put up with her. He leaves, but Scarlett determines to find a way to get him back ‘tomorrow.’"
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- "Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind was published in 1936 to a muted critical reception – it was regarded as a 'woman's book'."
- "It is a benchmark and a blueprint for sweeping historical romances."
- "The novel has endured as one of the bestselling novels of all time despite initial critical dismissal."
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- I really, really want to see it on a movie theater screen because I choose to see it as art, not a history lesson.
- A work of art that finds new meaning and new audiences over time meets one of the criteria for 'great' art.
- Can we see Gone With The Wind as art?