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Fast Facts
- Author: Margaret Mitchell
- Genre: Historical Fiction, Melodrama
- Publication date: June 1936Panmacmillain.com: Publishing information about Gone with the Wind
- Publisher: Scribner (paperback edition)
- Pages: 1048 (Scribner paperback edition
- ISBN 068483068X (Scribner paperback edition)
- Adaptations: Film (1939), 2 Musicals (1970, 2008)
- Award: Pulitzer Prize (1937)
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Plot Synopsis
Gone With the Wind follows the fortunes of Scarlett O'Hara, a Southern society woman, against the backdrop of the American Civil War.O'Hara is headstrong, contrary, selfish and driven. These qualities, along with her steadfast and unrequited love for Ashley Wilkes, keep her at odds with Atlanta high society and with a series of ill-fated husbands. Only Rhett Butler, a Confederate rogue, hopes to match her willpower and win her loyalty and heart.
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Critical Reception
Gone With the Wind sold over 1.3 million copies in its first year and has been translated into 40 languages.Lewrockwell.com: Gone With the Wind: An American Epic It received the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1937. -
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