Gone with the Wind

Summary

Margaret Mitchell’s great novel of the South is one of the most popular books ever written. Within six months of its publication in 1936, Gone with the Wind had sold a million copies. To date, it has been translated into twenty-five languages, and more than twenty-eight million copies have been sold.

Here are the characters that have become symbols of passion and desire: the young and beautiful but spoiled and manipulative Scarlett O’Hara and the darkly handsome rogue Rhett Butler. Behind them stand their gentler counterparts: Ashley Wilkes and Melanie Hamilton. They come of age just as the Civil War forever changes their way of life, the vanishing life of the Southern plantations.

As the lives and affairs of these absorbing characters play out against the tumult of the Civil War, Gone with the Wind reaches dramatic heights that have swept generations of fans off their feet.